계몽의 이면, 무시와 혐오의 감성 정치 - 한성신보(1895-1904) 잡보란을 통해 본 ‘조선’의 표상화 맥락과 감정 수사-

Abstract

This paper investigates the politics of discourses and the control of affective strategies which were printed in articles of Hanseong Sinbo with focusing on how the enlightenment subject came to take the hegemony of the journalism by ignoring the ignorant and how they justify their hate feeling toward the ‘know-nothing’. Article section of Hanseong Sinbo was published the problematic incident of daily life in Joseon as follows; the first, Hanseong Sinbo printed Joseon common life with the angle of superstition and wicked and depicted the sexual relationship and life between couples with the perspective of promiscuousness and corruption. The second, it printed fraud cases and corruption officials for targeting to rebuild the image of Joseon as ignorant and abominable. Then it uses the strategies of rhetoric as like ridiculing and compassion. The rhetorical politics of ignorance and hate feeling toward Joseon’s daily life was adapted to write the article of Chinese’s, and this biased perspective construct of the hierarchical discourses amongst three nations of East Asians as follows; Most Japanese articles were about admirable anecdotes but Chinese people and cultures were about negative and problematic incidents as like those of Joseon. Every article of Hanseong Sinbo quoted comments on the incidents of the anonymous crowd and the journalists, and these ways of writings made the newspaper readers accept the comments as public opinion, not as that of the press. This Paper analyzes the discourse structure of early modern discourses in Joseon through analyzing the discourse structure and rhetorics of articles of Hanseong Sinbo with this question; how and the since when the enlightenment discourses make justify the ignorant and hate feeling towards the ‘know-nothing public’ of Joseon.