日帝 末期 國民文學의 存在 樣相－李孝石의 『綠色 塔』을 중심으로－

Abstract

An Aspect of National Literature in the Late Japanese Colonial Period －Centering on Lee, Hyo-seok's Green Tower－ Kim, Yang-sun This thesis looks into the hybrid aspects of Lee, Hyo-seok's novels in the late Japanese Colonial Period, relating with the writer's (un)consciousness who is in the border between colonization and de-colonization. Green Tower and other novels in 1940's deal with the (re)discovery of Chosun's beauty, the love with Japanese woman or Western woman, the realization of Europeanism. These novels think more of the mixed condition West/Japan/Chosun than their's differences, and more of the principle of assimilation than the hierarchy. Western culture and study, Chosun's beauty and value co-exist in Green Tower too. The hybridity of Green Tower discovers and seeks the universal beauty of Chosun through the imperial's eye. Also this novel accepts but intends from the assimilation of Japan and Korea, ‘the combination of blood’. Lee, Hyo-seok's peculiar project was in the discovery of Chosun by a man who had Western-modern culture, and tried to set it on the category of ‘World Literature’. His project shows ‘the same but different’ mimicry in comparison with Orientalism or Japan's National Literature. Nevertheless, His concept about National Literature look away from the difference or gap, finally can be controled by the colonialism. The optimistic view of this novel, which followed the stereotype of love story, didn't have the critical distance about West's Orientalism and Japan's assimilation.