한말 중기의병 격문류 연구

Abstract

This study examines the sorts of war manifestos written during the middle period of Korean righteous armies at the late Yi-dynasity(may 1904-July 1907), an important period in Korea's modern and contemporary war history. In Chapter 2, presented a list of 42 types of the sorts of war manifestos written during the middle period of Korean righteous armies, and briefly looked at the style, distribution by year, and author of the sorts of war manifestos. The style of the sorts of war manifestos is diverse, such as ‘Tongmun(通文, notice)’, ‘Seo(書, letter)’, ‘Gyeogmun(檄文, war manifesto)’, and ‘Pogomun(布告文, declaration)’. If you look at the distribution by year, you can see that the number of the sorts of war manifestos increased explosively in 1905. The author includes both students of Confucianism and officials, and they formed an alliance through academic and regional exchanges. Among the 11 authors, 6 have a history of active in the middle period of Korean righteous armies. In Chapter 3, the issues of the struggle of the Korean righteous army in the mid-period were classified into four types: ‘struggle for national unity’, ‘struggle for ideological revenge’, ‘struggle for political independence’, and ‘struggle for economic liberation’, and the contents and rhetoric of each were examined. The Korean righteous armies in the mid-period at the late Yi-dynasity rose up against the Japanese colonial rule, which deprived the Korean Empire of its military rule, fishing rights, communication rights, and diplomatic rights. Therefore, the severity of the situation and the level of struggle were different from the case of the Early Righteous Armies that rose up against Japan's interference in internal affairs. And the war manifesto, a means of literary resistance, also needed to have more ‘strengthened resistance logic and propaganda functions’ compared to the early righteous armies’ war manifesto. As Japan's control of the government and oppression of the people accelerated, the mid-period Korean righteous armies denounced the violence of the Japanese imperialists, condemned the rebel forces that cooperated with the Japanese, and sought to restore national unity and freedom and sovereignty. The national, ideological, political, and economic debates they raised through the war manifesto reflected the sense of crisis and resistance of the intellectuals at that time.