Abstract

This study examined the changing perception of North Korean literary history regarding the history of poetry in the 1920s. The descriptive aspect of North Korean literary history has changed since 1967. Before 1967, it was written based on Marxism. After 1967, it was described by Kim Il-sung's ideology. Joseonmunhagtongsa(1959) divided the poetry in the 1920s into proletarian and progressive literature. However, Joseonmunhaggaegwan(1986) described it as a period in which anti-Japanese patriotic literature, critical realism, proletarian literature, and anti-Japanese revolutionary literature coexisted. The characteristics of changes in North Korean literary history were revealed through period division, awareness of socialist realism, and Kim Il-sung's words. However, these characteristics of North Korean literary history had limitations. First, it was described by political ideology. Second, literary facts were also distorted. Third, only literary evaluation based on Kim Il-sung's ideology was allowed. North Korean literary history is closer to political history than literary history.

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