한국전쟁기 김말봉의 『별들의 故鄕』 연구

• 영문명: A Study on Hometown of Stars written by Kim, Mal-Bong during the Korean War Period
• 발행기관: 한국문학회
• 저자명: 최미진(Choi Mi­Jin) 김정자(Kim Jeong­Ja)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국문학논총』제39집, 293~321쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 한국어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.04.01

영문 초록

This paper takes a close look at Kim, Mal-bong's Hometown of Stars released during the Korean War period, in order to relate the writer's literary characteristics seen after the liberation from the Japanese colonial rule to the characteristics in social melodrama. Hometown of Stars adopts the formula of social melodrama that gives its unique double effect by combining basic plot of love stories among characters with social and historical events as a background. First, in the Hometown of Stars, the Licensed Prostitution Abolition Movement after the Liberalization plays a role in diversifying love relationship among characters and gives an opportunity for self-reflection. In particular, the Movement is used to highlight the changing social views of the characters. The writer indirectly sheds light on the inhumane treatment of prostitutes and the problems of residual values of the feudalistic way of thinking based on the class system. However, his intention to put the behind story of social and historical facts into a realistic context, rather than to investigate the Movement in itself helps intensify the pleasure to read this novel. Next, the social and historical background of the Korean War serves as a vehicle to provide plausibility to the plot and to raise readers' awareness of the reality through the hidden fact of history. The writer's views that the government's misinformation at the time of the Korean War helped increase people's casualties are represented in a natural fashion through characters' behaviors, evoking a sense of reality on the historical facts from readers. Moreover, the War, which serves as a defining moment in dramatizing love conflicts of the characters, boosts the interest in reading the story. The writer sets the Korean War as a turning point to convert the ideological confrontation after the Liberalization to the punitive confrontation structure in which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished. The ending of Hometown of Stars shows both melodramatic limit and social melodramatic characteristics that go beyond the limit, because the clash between the prevailing ideology and the moral faith forms the typical punitive confrontation structure, while transcending the formula to reach the universal value of humanity, especially religious ethics. The writer is not swayed by conventions or ideology and he uses “star” as a metaphor of human and spirit, hoping that they can be reborn in the “hometown”, the source of new hope. In this symbolic fashion, he suggests a “wise” way to overcome wartime confusion to readers. The formula of social melodrama in Hometown of Stars not only provides pleasure of reading popular novels, but also puts social and historical facts into a realistic context and deals a measurable blow to covered historical facts and ignored social thinking frame. In that sense, Kim, Mal-bong could succeed in strengthening literature's impact by the means of social melodrama that contains popular and social elements at the same time. This is related to his direct involvement and hard work in abolishing the Licensed Prostitution System after the Liberation. It is also notable that the Licensed Prostitution Abolition Movement is a main theme in Hometown of Stars, as well as in his other works after the Liberation, such as Splendid Hell, Blue Wings and Life.

목차

Ⅰ. 들머리

Ⅱ. 『별들의 故鄕』과 사회적 멜로드라마

Ⅲ. 공창폐지운동, 애정갈등의 다각화와 인습적 도덕의 재인식

Ⅳ. 한국전쟁, 애정갈등의 극화와 이데올로기의 분화

Ⅴ. 도덕적 질서로서의 종교와 사랑의 승화

Ⅵ. 마무리

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