냉전기 한국 지식인의 아시아 아프리카 상상

Abstract

This research examines the Asian African imagination that appeared on newspapers and magazines between mid-1950s and late-1960s. The Asian African Conference, which was held in 1955 in Bandung, served as a pivotal moment for the issue of post-colonization to re-emerge after Korean War. Since then, as the Cold War tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union relaxed, Korean intellectuals’ perception of the world expanded to Asia and Africa. This paper is composed of two chapters excluding the introduction and the conclusion. In Chapter 2, I reviewed how the ‘Orient’(東洋) concept changes from cultural concept under the Cold War regime. During the mid and late-1950s, ‘Asia/Orient’ concept began to be recognized by the Korean intellectuals as a political concept to explain the modern Asian African nationalism rather than a cultural concept. During this phase, description of common experiences between Asian African countries and Korea started to appear. In Chapter 3, I reviewed how Asian African imagination, which began to change in late 1950s, was projected to the Asian African solidarity movement or African region. Even though the global horizon had been widened, Korean intellectuals attempted to interpret many trends of Asia Africa from the perspective of national interest. Even the critical intellectuals could not leap beyond the framework of national interest. Against the backdrop of international decline of Asian African solidarity movement since 1965, such perspective of Korean intellectuals was fortified.