『관부연락선』의 탈식민성 연구

Abstract

Lee Byung-Ju's 『The Gwan-Bu Ferry Boat』 is a proper text of post- colonialism. It realistically shows Yoo Tae-Rim's experience as a mobilized soldier, the education he got under the Japanese colonial domination, and the effort of intellectuals and students for establishing a nation state after the liberation. Especially, as the topic is 『The Gwan-Bu Ferry Boat』 which connected the way from Japan to Korea(Chosun), it perfectly shows the colonialism of the age and the aspects of colonial domination. This harsh colonial education is shown realistically in the The Gwan-Bu Ferry Boat』. Especially, in 1940 during the Pacific War, colonial education of Japan was the same as the paramilitary education. Yoo Tae-Rim who had entered Chosun with a Japanese friend E fell into despair because of the condition of colonial education. Like this, he even had hostility to the Japanese policies and the colonial education he eventually accepted, the Japanese education and thought. The political and national situation of the <Gwan-Bu Ferry Boat> generation in Chosun is the effect of Japanese irrationally political and social circumstances. Military domination system made Yoo Tae-Rim give up his study and be taken to the army as a soldier half reluctantly. The student soldiers including Yoo Tae-Rim tried to justify their positions as a soldier while thinking that even as Japanese soldiers, they would reject discrimination on Chosun people. But, they found their efforts was totally choplogic and being a student soldier was just a servile behavior like a slave. The tough experience as a mobilized student soldier affected all the generations as the root of sense of guilty on their nation and conscience, and it became an obstacle for them including Yoo Tae-Rim not to project their nation-state in the place of liberation. This work reveals multi-layered contradictions and conflicts of a social commentary and also triggers the motivation to expand the closed field of education toward the social-political field. However, the main character of the work, Yoo Tea-Rim, took a chilly reaction to extended heats of the field of the education. Instead, he seeked the university of the education, which is students' rights of their learning and political neutrality of a teacher required in any society.