서사의 로칼리티, 소실된 동아시아 ―심훈의 중국체험과 『동방의 애인』

Abstract

This thesis concerns a trial to explain the way how modern literature built a relation with its nation-state, through Shim Hoon's novel The Lover of the East. For Shim, China was the original space of socialist modernity at which he had been admiring. However, the narrative related to China in The Lover of the East, was limited to gestate new values and its leading persons. He brought the conflicts which the East Asia was faced with in those days into this novel, but that was just utilized as a background forexplaining contradiction issues of Korea. In the result, the contents of narrative were concentrated into Korea, and on the contrary, it caused ironically to weaken the feasibility of overcoming the imperial occupation and presenting the construction of new state (nation-state), which the novel would describe at the start. Because this was an issue to negate the legal subject through legal method. The conclusion of this novel's narrative which depicts the reform of countryside and hometown, was an allegory and metaphor with no choice, forced by realities under such circumstances. The striving for national salvation through literature, created a dilemma and self-contradiction unexpected. That is to say, the image of state in the novel was confined to the limit of experienced locality by analogizing the state out of native region or hometown. It meant the typical immersion in nation. Shim Hoon's successive novels presented the inevitability of those of colony, which legal imagination of the state through novels was possible only by the way confining the feasibility of future into the past.