親日의 脫植民的 解釋을 위한 試論

Abstract

Maybe the being of pro-japanese or pro-japanese literature seems to be still troublesome theme in the history of Korean modern literature. The trend filled with excessive national purity is a chief obstacle to treat them fairy. It is impossible to judge them with the dichotomy of pro-japanese or anti-japanese. We need to take into account the fact that what a severe times under the rules of Japanese imperialism is. All the pro-japanese text are the result of complicated react against the order of Japanese imperialism. In the same reason, I call them “an erased text.” I think it is more important to read them elaborately than criticize the writer who collaborated with Japanese imperialism. The mechanism of pro-japanese has more complicate and multiple elements than one imagine. This is the reason we never overlooking the folds and spots in the text, and the interaction between the colonized people and time. Lee, Hyo-seok is known to write some pro-japanese fictions at the last few years of his life. But when we read the novel “a chapter of thistle” carefully, we can discover his postcolonial desire against the order of japanese imperialism.