최초의 고려인 문학선집 『로력자의 고향』에 대한 문화사적 고찰

Abstract

This article tries to review the historical interpretation and periodical meaning of "Hometown of the Labor", the first collection of literary and artistic works of the Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature Society, published in Khabarovsk, in 1934, when Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature Society - the mother body of Soviet Korean Literature Society, started to establish its position proudly as a member of the Soviet Literary Circle. Cho Myung-hee, a leading KAPF(Korea Artista Proleta Federatio) writer who defected to the Soviet Union in July 1928, organized the publication of the collection. This collection of works is the first collection and first publication of Soviet Korean Literature, serving as a clue defining an era in the history of Soviet Korean Literature.<BR> "Hometown of the Labor" is the first collection of Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature. Works by writers representing the Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature Society were selected. And published in 1934 to coincide with the hosting of the "First Writers Congress of the Soviet Union". The publication of "Hometown of the Labor" was like a sign that Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature Society entered the Soviet Literary Circle.<BR> In the 1920s and 30s, Soviet Korean Literature was possible two-way communication in which writers and readers wrote and enjoyed the work in Korean words. The only window was the "Seon Bong Newspaper". And in 1934, for the first time, the spread of literature in the form of the book of literary and creative writing" began. Three years later, in July 1937, a second literary and artistic creation book was published. Just before the forced relocation of Soviet Far Eastern Koreans to Central Asia was executed. It is "Hometown of thr Labor". When the Soviet Korean Literature began to blossom, the history of the Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature ended.<BR> A year after the forced migration, in 1938, the ethnic Korean school, which was educated with Korean language was integrated into the Russian language education institution, and the Soviet Koreans gradually began to lose their Korean language. This has enable the historical value of the Soviet Far Eastern Korean Literature in the history of Soviet Korean cultural anthropology.<BR> The Soviet Far Easter Korean Literature was active in a climate where the tradition of Korean literature was studied and reinterpreted at a time when the Soviet government"s racial minority language education policy was actively supported and implemented. So Soviet Korean Literature of the 1920s and 30s, could be the most ethnic and could grow in the midst of sharing between writers and readers. And the condensed first result was the first literary and artistic creation "Hometown of the Labor".