사교(邪敎) 대(對) 과학 그리고 문학－백백교(白白敎) 사건을 둘러싼 내러티브적 실천들－

Abstract

As a new religious group of Korea during early modern times, Baekbaek-gyo left a variety of texts from a strange murder case. Those texts range from the investigation records of the judicial authorities to articles and editorials in newspapers, magazines and novels. Those texts all share a common feature of presenting the true nature of Baekbaek-gyo and the whole account of the Baekbaek-gyo case in a narrative. That is, they were narratives written by different subjects of narration to understand the essence of Baekbaek-gyo and the Baekbaek-gyo case and define their meanings by projecting their different intentions, desires, and beliefs. The texts were thus the narrative practice results surrounding Baekbaek-gyo and the Baekbaek-gyo case. It was through this practice that the subjects of the narration convicted Baekbaek-gyo and the Baekbaek-gyo case politically and socially and even utilized(consumed) them. They also realized their misunderstandings of the empire, its ideological crisis, and colonial Joseon society. In the middle of all those developments, the authority on science (enlightenment) and the roles of literature were unsettling. In brief, the narratives about Baekbaek-gyo and the Baekbaek-gyo case present a case in which the nature of the narrative was revealed as a process of organizing facts or truths and an epistemological scheme and result. They were also a case in which the subjects of the narrations from different positions in society showed very multi-faceted structures of communication. Most of all, the narrative practices surrounding Baekbaek-gyo and the Baekbaek-gyo case present a noteworthy case to show multi-layered contexts(politics, society, and history) surrounding narratives.