the era of liberation; rightist nove; aesthetic characteristic; political system; the tradition-oriented; ethical dichotomy; the ideologie of vice and virtue; pure literature; human warmth; traditionalism the space of archetype; 해방기; 우익소설; 미적 특성; 정치체제; 정통지향성; 원형공간; 순수문학; 인정주의; 윤리적 이분법; 선악의 이념상
Issue Date
2004-08
Publisher
현대문학이론학회
Citation
현대문학이론연구, v. 22, No. 0, Page. 5-33
Abstract
Rightist novels written in the era of liberation contain their own
spiritual orientation and aesthetic characteristics. We must pay attention
to the fact that these characteristics were closely related to the political
system of democracy. Fierce literary and political struggles of the
rightists are well shown in the aesthetic characteristics of rightist novels
in this era. Selection and establishment of regime played the core role in
the literary and political game, regardless of rightist and leftist.
One of the remarkable aesthetic characteristics represented in the
rightist novels was the tradition-oriented value system, which had been
formed to establish the national identity. At the same time, their
spiritual orientation for the stable space, where the traditional and ethical
value was functioned as the principle of life, was expressed in the novel.
The stability from the traditional world could be accepted as the
stability from the political system of democracy that is, the rightist —
political ideology by assuming the opposition to the leftist based on the —
class-revolution.
In addition, the pure literature of the rightist was represented as the
exploration to and the advocacy of humanity. The advocacy of humanity
is directly related to the democratic idea granting the best value to the
human dignity. However, the rightist advocated the autonomy of
literature, while they actually showed the strong political characteristic
required to build up the system and ideology. The political characteristic
of rightist novels was evidently revealed in that it divided the characters
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in the work with the ethical dichotomy and distinguished them into vice
and virtue depending on the leftist or rightist ideologies. The two
conflicting ideologies and their ideological vice and virtue were obviously
a sort of the means of political propagation.
The contradiction of denying but maximizing the political
characteristic was resulted from the special historical situation in which
it was pressingly required to secure the validity of rightist ideology and
to implement the literary idea. The era of liberation was the period
when the politics and the literature had a close relationship to the extent
that the twos were considered identical. Besides, the existence of
literature was threatened according to the direction of the current
system and ideology. The political participation by the rightist literary
men made a contribution to the establishment of democratic system.
The rightist novels in the era of liberation had a valuable significance
in the light that they constructed the national literature for the recovery
of national identity, denied the political characteristic in terms of literary
ideology, struggled against the leftist for the restoration of literariness
and tried to establish the democratic political system. However, it was
functioned as another repressive discourse by exceeding its historical
duty, establishing a system, and colluding with the anticommunist group.