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A Study on the novel-sociological function of the Korean Anti-Communism

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2004, (52), pp.313-344
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kang Jin ho 1

1성신여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This is an article written to analyze the Novel-Sociological function of the Korean Anti-Communism. Anti-Communism means the exclusive logic and distorted emotion against Communism, specially the North Korean Communist and the leftist’ action and tendency in the South Korea. The main concept of this article is firstly the sociological function of the Korean Anti-Communism, secondly the relation of novels and Anti-Communism which through Seonwoo-hwee, Nam-Junghyun, Park-wanseo’ novels. By this article’ analysis, the Anti-Communism’ novel-sociological function is an oppressed element of novelist’ creative activity. For instance, Seonwoo-hwee can not recognize the truth of the Chinese Communists’ independence movement against Japanese imperialist so far as the Korean’ that. Nam-Junghyun can not writes a subject matter such as anti-American and anti-imperialism. In addition to Park-wanseo can not describe realistically about the figure of her’s older brother’ death killed by the South & North Korean’s army. She distorted her older brother’ figure in novels because of the anti-communist’s oppression anr self-inspection. In this way, Anti-Communism compelled novelist to distort novel’ contents, a subject matter and characters.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.