This paper is the sequel to A Study of the National Literature (1978), and its purpore is to analyse and elucidate the structre of the Korean literature during the Japanese coercive occupation from 1910 to 1945.
The literary historians hitherto wrot...
This paper is the sequel to A Study of the National Literature (1978), and its purpore is to analyse and elucidate the structre of the Korean literature during the Japanese coercive occupation from 1910 to 1945.
The literary historians hitherto wrote the literary history of the colonial period centering upon those publishes literary works which passes serve inspection and were pleasant to the inspectors' taste, so that only those works were made to seem like the sum-total of the Korean literature of the colonial period.
Rejecting such method of literary historians I introduced for the first time these poems written by our patriots who fought forthe independence of Korea at home and abroad against the Japaneserule. I insisted that such poems are the straightferward literary expression of the Korean thought and feeling in the colonial period. and so it is proper that we should systematize the history of the Korean literature of the colonial period centering upon such literary works.
I admittes the historical fact that 'the literature for colonial management' which was approved by the Japanese invaders and 'the literature for indenpendence' which was the product of the struggle for independence were coexistent inevitably as a double structure in the colonial period, and attempted to consider the relation of the post-liberation leterature to the pre-liberation literature elevating the noble spirit of 'the literature for imdependence' from the subjective viewpoint of history.