Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022
Abstract
This study deals with the short-term depiction of a woman in North Korean literature of the first half of 1950s, when the native and Soviet models mingled and created the model and independent characters. Stories significantly recoded maternity, thematized the extreme relation to the country and the party-spirit.
The result is the women's membership out of the classic family space, their entering into the public spheres and their capacity in extreme periods of the civil war, the building of industry and the collectivisation. Heroines have been despatched soon by Kim Ilsŏng and his family and re-turned to the lesser roles, in which they exist only in relationship with the divine power of the Great Leader