아나키스트의 눈과 탈식민적 국제 연대의 상상 －박태원의 『약산과 의열단』(1946)을 중심으로－

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the orbit of anarchism thoughts and postcolonial international solidarities found in Park Tae-won’s historical narrative 『Yaksan and the Heroic Corps』 to make a comparative analysis with other historical narratives in order to visualize cultural articulations that unfolded surrounding the construction of a nation-state during the liberation period from various aspects. The liberation period was a time when ‘historical narratives as national history texts’ rose and under the mission that they must contribute to the founding of the nation, it was a period where historical narrators ‘responded to catalysts such as nationalism’ to draw the image of a unified, hierarchical and aestheticized nation/state. However, it is important to pay attention to the fact that various perspectives on writing history that cannot be interpreted only by nationalism were triggered by different driving forces during the space of liberation. In addition to history writing from the aspects of socialism or nationalism, this study examined what type of ‘construction’ the 『Yaksan and the Heroic Corps』 based on an anarchist belief, which was a third camp, was being proposed. Based on the purpose of ‘alliance based on individual free will’ or ‘denying reversion to power’, which were the opinions of Choseon anarchists, 『Yaksan and the Heroic Corps』 emphasized the power of the group instead of a single historical figure like other historical narratives that focused on a single hero to search for the justification of constructing a hierarchical nation-state. It should be given attention that it attempted to construct a horizontal ‘group’ focusing on the moment when non-heroic public masses are awakened. This type of ‘group’ fell away from the single political authority called nation-state and expanded to a trans-border solidarity surrounding Asia and the world. Therefore, focusing on the thoughts of the pan-global solidarity of such anarchists is significant in that it measures the ‘Zeitgeist of post-colonialization’ that the people of Choseon displayed during the liberation period, while also making an in-depth investigation on the correlation of liberation period historical narratives with the region and world.