해방기 지식 場의 재편과 ‘번역’의 정치학

Abstract

The historical event called ‘liberation’ calls out a political symbol called ‘translation.’Passing through the Japanese colonial period in which communication between the colonizers and the colonized people was possible through the Japanese language, they come to face political circumstances where even communication is impossible without ‘translation.’ Under these circumstances, translation activities during the liberation period were intensely under way between the U.S. and the Soviet Union military authorities and the intellectuals responding thereto. Translation was a major medium of ideological propaganda activities at the time and the politics of such translation became another proof testifing that the period of liberation was the outlet for knowledge and the arena of intense ideological struggle. For the intellectuals in the liberation period, ‘translation’ was an important means to fill the period of intellectual vacuum at the time of the transitional period from the colonial period to the period of establishing a new nation-state. Particularly, in diagnosing the state of affairs of Joseon, which was a minor power, and examining the course it would take from the viewpoint of expanding to the West and further ‘the world’, the translation was an important way to provide effective framework of reference. Not only Western thought, but also leftist thought was equally able to be the objects of translation, and, on the whole, leftist knowledge was actually superior in quantities. In the form of an independent volume, the translations of leftist original texts were thriving, and in the form of magazines, the translations of the writings of the journalists at the time who had been friendly to the revolutions of the Soviet Union and China were more in quantities. Thus, the intellectuals in the liberation period were building up their ideological basis by keeping in tune with avant-garde intellectuals or journalists in the West contemporarily. Translated knowledge articles and literary works were the barometer to grasp political circumstances at the time and also expression channels of inner aspir translatthe intellectuals. So translated articles sometimes took the pl explatdirect statements under the cnnels of inner aspisuch statements could hardly be made. Ttimeadvocated the siatlof eous withdrawal latbothismerican and Soviet armed fonees by translating Edgar Snow’s articlesand they also intensively translated the articles of ant timperialism struggles in Southeast Asia, and ade. Tprove that translated articles at the time waspiall indirectkeeping intatements. In this manner, they dreamed their aspiration of establishing a desirable nation-state through translations and based on this, they learned how to communicate with the world as world citizens The translations in the liberation period when even traditional discussions had not yet been formed were major strategies that Joseon conducted right after the liberation to escape from intellectual colony and were political tactics to form autonomy through others. Accordingly, however, they could not help being affected so sensitively by political circumstances. Translations after 1949 gradually came to follow the line leaning toward the West. Now beyond the age of relatively free intellectual politics, the time was about to arrive for them to render servicesto establishment of the single government and its ideology.