This thesis is about the importance of the writing history of Korean literature that might restore and systemize heterogeneous national histories caused by having been divided into South and North Korea for sixty years. It is also about the concrete m...
This thesis is about the importance of the writing history of Korean literature that might restore and systemize heterogeneous national histories caused by having been divided into South and North Korea for sixty years. It is also about the concrete methods of writing history of Korean literature. I have been searching for concrete approaches of the history of literature, comparing modern literatures that have been published in both South and North Korea until now. For we need to seek the history of national literature with resuscitative and open-minded attitudes.
The main discourse, which is the keynote and the outline of this thesis, gives three preconditions for writing a new history of literature. One of them is a serious attitude that destroy the wall of the long division of Korea into North and South Korea. And this attitude tries to seek true national unification literature. In this globalization era, we need to expand territories. Therefore, we should consider Koreans in China, old USSR, U.S.A., Japan, Australia as well as Koreans in South and North Korea. We could also expand literatures written in other languages. And we need to often hold seminars in domestic and overseas. We could make a informationalization of the literatures of South and North Korea and exchange information.
Next chapter gropes and shows the description methods of the history of literature that are itemized discussions. First, it presents the writer's objectivity and autonomy. And it also presents the need to balance the authors and the eras focused by the main genres. Above all, it suggests Proletarian literature, Anti-Japanese literature and national literature in 1930's be assessed and accepted together. It suggests that we should emphasize 'Donghok gasa' more than social activities achieved by certain people in sorting the origin point of new literature and the time of modern literature. It gives new opinion that we need to change contemporary literature which is long and has vague boundaries into current literature which existed after post-war literature in 1950's. Lastly, it sees the antagonistic relationship between proletarian literature and national literature as a dialectic development.