근대 부산ㆍ경남 지역의 매체 현황과 지역문학의 양상

Abstract

The publication of a newspaper magazine medium has a decisive influence on the literary production and enjoyment in the modern times. This implies that it is necessary in studying Korean regional literature to draw the cultural map which is made of all the magazine media. For the first half of the 20th century various magazine media had played the vehicle role of literary struggles among the writers in Busan-Gyeongnam province. In other words, literary media had been in the core of local literary societies or associations. Thus, this study aims to elucidate the reality and history of relations between literary media and regional literature for further studies on the characteristics of literary works and writers’ life in the same area. The results of this study are as follows: 1. In the area had there been various literary media. Every medium was published by a specific writer and it played the role of vehicle through which writers presented literary works that suited to the publisher’s taste or emotion during the period under the Japanese colonial rule of Korea. Thus, most the literary activities during the period could be evaluated as those of the like-minded literary society or circle. There was an exceptional city in which several literary media had conveyed non-regional writers whose basis were in Seoul. 2. There was a notable change on the characteristics of those literary media during the Liberation period. Most publishers and their followers had used their own literary media as the vehicle of ideological struggle against those who were standing on the opponent point of politics, as well as the taste or knowledge about literature. Thus, most the literary activities during the period could be evaluated as those of literary media struggle among the different-minded literary associates. In other words,literary media had played the vehicle of aggravating the ideological division of Korean people, especially the local residents. These results could be helpful for us to cultivate a new vision of approach to the Busan & Gyeongnam’s regional literature.