번역과 문학 장(場)의 내셔널리티

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine consciousness and activity of Heawoimunhakpa('Foreign literature' group) which concentrated on translation of foreign literatures in the colonized Korea, considering roles of translation in modern nation-state building. Although Heawoimunhakpa were suspicious of coloniality in respect that they pursued blindly contents of the western civilization, they proclaimed importances of translation into Korean when Japanese as imperial language placed at position of 'national language', which can suggest a model of lingual nationalism. To rethink the group is very meaningful in sense that the formation of their identity relates to translation which put a bar across boundary of dichotomy constructed in modern times, or more firm it. In fact, all of the nationalist or the proletarian literary group of KAPF had proclaimed openly nationalism of literature, and they had been mainstream in the literary world of Chosun in that times. The reason why, in that times, the literary world excluded Heawoimunhakpa is that they seemed to erase nationality as Korean. It is held that aggressive discourses on them show embarrassment and rejection of transparency of which unhesitatingly declared envy and desire for acceptation of the western literature, which proves that nationality of literature is formed in deceptive concealment and intentional exclusion of the other identity. Considering this point, Heawoimunhakpa recognized necessity of translation and investigation of foreign literature as chief method to acquire modernity of the colonial modern literature, and tried to recognize the western civilization and to gain modern consciousness of Korean through translating, which I think must be reestimated in respect of interrelation of translation and nationality in literature.