출판신체제의 성립과 조선문단의 사정

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to verify the concrete contents and meanings of 1940's 'New Publication System' policy and inspect closely on what the men of letters in the colonial Korea set their sights. In 1940, Konoe's 2nd Ministry presents so-called 'New System' as national policy. It meant the formation and realization of the expanded state and the block economy which would arise above the national state. The 'New Publication System' has been constructed centering around the inland Japan. It has meant that the state would've come to have full control over the length and the breadth of publication. It has gone far beyond the general censorship and materialized the power of control over every process such as production, distribution, and consumption of all publications. And the distribution network has expanded to all over the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Korea, a colony of Japanese Empire, too, has articulated in the 'New Publication System'. In colonial Korea, the field of the production in publication has been controlled by the Joseon Government-general, and the distribution by the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere centering around Japan, the fixed point. Thus the whole process of Korean publication has become a constituent unit of the large organic construct. After all, on one hand, the 'New Publication System' has made the field of distribution broader, on the other hand, the sphere of production has become under control of the local government. Thus through the 'New Publication System', the space of Korean literature has begun to expand towards the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere via the inland Japan, and through the medium of Japanese language (the official language), the market has become wider out of local range. As a result of the 'New Publication System', the enlargement of distribution network and of literary space brought the Korean writers new space sense and strong desire. That is, the sense of reality and the fantasy brought by the expanded distribution network―the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere― made the Korean writers possible to imagine that they could make their fame in the center or anywhere in the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. However, the desire and the imagination has already been set under the control of the local joint. So, the wandering writers came into being and the number has increased gradually, wandering over the desire towards the center of Japanese Empire or the world and the reality of local control. Their products could go anywhere under the effect of the new policy but the producers would never be free from the local management and control. This vicious circulation was the very phase made by the 'New Publication System'.