식민과 제국의 교차로, ‘역(驛)’의 문학사 - 20세기 전반의 대전역을 중심으로

Abstract

Daejeon, established with the opening of the railroad in the early 1900s, was a ‘emerging city’ in which the vested rights of Japanese migrants were thoroughly embodied. This is because the city was built in the form of a Japanese shopping street and ‘shinsa’ each other with a train station in between. The establishment of a space of enjoyment represented by ‘Yugwak’ and of mangyang, symbolized by ‘shinsa’, reflects the process of colonial urbanization in Imperial Japan. In this sense, the transformation of Daejeon Station in the first half of the 20th century can be regarded as a condensation of the violence of the ‘colonial city’ created by Japan. The primary intention of this article is to review Korean and Japanese texts that reproduced the contrast of Daejeon around 1920, presuming the geopolitical composition of Daejeon during the period of the occupation. The development of Daejeon, described in 『Daejeonbaljeonji』 published in 1917 by Reisui Tanaka, clearly contrasts with the corruption of Daejeon, which colonial writers such as Yeom Sang-seop and Uchino Genji reproduced through literary works in the early 1920s. do. By examining the contradictory position and context of looking at the ‘emerging city’ established by the imperial change, we attempt to reconstruct the early city history of Daejeon. Daejeon, depicted as a ‘tomb of boiling maggots’ (Yom Sang-seop), and recreated as an unexplored land surrounded by ‘soil walls,’ (Uchino Genji, 內野建児), is a ‘colonial city’ that Japanese settlers such as Reisi Tanaka turned away from. It was a place that typically embraces the naked face. Chae Man-sik, who called Daejeon Station in the year following liberation at different times, sharply culminates in the wounds of colonists in the city of Daejeon. The Japanese have left, but in the shadows of the Cold War over there, Daejeon Station remains a ‘dark station’ trapped in the bonds of imperialism.