식민지 시대 열녀 재현의 정치학: 총독부 기관지 <경학원잡지> ‘지방보고’란의 열녀 기사를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper analyzed the relationship between the representation of virtuous woman published in an article column called 'local reports' of <the Journal of Kyeonghakwon> and the local Confucians in the colonial era. For this, the paper examined the characteristics of the article column called 'local report' by connecting them to 'the relationship between Central Kyeonghakwon and local Hyanggyo (鄕校, Confucian school). It also highlighted the process that female figures called virtuous women are found and reproduced by the local Confucians through the local reports column. The articles about virtuous women in the local reports column began to appear from the next issue right after an important person of Kyeonghakwon mentioned 'them'. The point that similar contents frequently appeared in the articles about virtuous at the initiatory stage indicates the process that the local Confucians who produced articles of the local reports imitated and learned them. The paper examined the point that the local Confucians and important people of Kyeonghakwon created the cyclical production structure as they stimulated one another by finding and recreating the articles about virtuous women. And the paper took note of the local Confucians social and economic conditions in the colonial era. They were much pressed by the Japanese Government-General of Korea's policy to weaken Hyanggyo and at the same time, were in fear of their position as the leadership of society that were weakened by competitive structures with modern intellectuals. 'Tao of Confucianism' was the only basis that makes them disregard their reality as the citizens of the colony and recover their social position which got to be low under those circumstances. Eventually, the representation of 'virtuous women' in the 'local reports' column is the symbol of Confucianism that the local Confuscians in the colonial era recalled to relieve anxiety about self identity as the existence was colonized and marginalized. Among these articles, the women's bodies and labor that are especially expressed from the viewpoint of exploitation and abuse are proof that the local Confucians looked at them from the viewpoint of internal colony.