일제 말기 조선인 일본어 작가의 또 하나의 선택지 - 장혁주의 『개간(開墾)』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Hyeok-ju Jang published numerous literary works, for example, hackneyed serial novels or any other novels covering Korean people who immigrated into Tokyo or Manchuria, and covering how people show their cooperative attitudes toward national policies. Hyeok-ju Jang, who was perceived as a ‘novelist writing literary works in the Japanese language’ representing Korea, moved to Manchuira, the third place. There, he announced Civilization which he wrote after interviewing ethnic Korean immigrants who overcame a great deal of suffering and ordeal and built a successful community in Manchuria. And the presence ‘to see’ can be found, by degrees, amid the reality in which a unfortunate Korean man had to wander about Manchuria, not the colonized Korea and colonizing Japan, amid his wish to settle in a land, along with the border line between the presence of the Korean land ‘to be seen’ as unstable future, and the presence of a novelist of the colonized Korean land ‘to see’. Hyeok-ju Jang not only realized that Japanese imperialists hoped he will satisfy ‘exotic hobby’ most Japanese had, but also he perceived he cannot abandon ‘‘Something of Korean sentiment and tints’. ‘Something of the Korean sentiment and tints’ was like shadow and living means, for him. Such as this, a Korean intellectual considered the colonized nation as the object ‘to be seen’. And he attempted to ‘see’ the colonizing Japanese imperialism that he aspired for. He ‘sees’ the colonized nation, Korea, in the viewpoint of the Japanese imperialists, and at the same time, considers Korea the object ‘to be seen’ in the viewpoint of a Korean person. Thus, he came to combine the two factors ‘to see’ and ‘to be seen’. Jang became a shrewd man who accepted ‘Something of the Korean sentiment and tints’ as the dualistic viewpoint, namely, the subject ‘to see’ and the object ‘to be seen’.