제국의 ‘조선적인 것’에 대한 전유와 소비 －사진엽서 조선정시(朝鮮情詩)의 경우－

Abstract

This study discusses on 2 sets of photographs and postcards. Through this text, it looks into the Japan’s appropriation and consumption of ‘things Chosun’, and then the colonialist discourse and way of cultural domination closely linked. The study, first of all, focused on the internal and external conditions where Chosun Jeongshi was produced. Through interpretations and analyses on various documents, it was newly found that Chosun Jeongshi was issued by Taisho Photo Workshop and sold in Daepanokho in Kyungseong. Also, it is remarkable feature that photos, drawings and Japanese poems in script and printing forms were complexly arranged to express ethnicity and life custom of Chosun, and for the realistic and romantic approaches to them. Also, the colonialist view and discourse observed from Chosun Jeongshi as well are interesting. First, most of the subjects described in Chosun Jeongshi are the people in farming place exposed to poverty, outmoded life style and poor working environment. They were being localized and colonized not only by the writer of Chosun Jeongshi who belonged to intelligentsia class of Chosun but also the low class Japanese immigrants to Chuson. Second, the origin of photographs and postcards and growth of its consumption are closely related to development of tourism. Tourism is not only for the tourism of civilization and culture but is also for consumption of sexuality in colony. Chosun Jeongshi depicted their interest in ‘Gisaeng’ but also defined and consumed the sexuality of Chosun by feminizing ethnicity and culture of Chosun. Third, Chosun Jeongshi often depicts a man in noble class and housewives were often depicted and this is one of the distinguishable features of Chosun Jeongshi. The author views these feature as a projection of ‘good wife and wise mother theory’ which made a great contribution to modern family of Japan and rearing of Japanese citizen to Chosun. This standard model of woman becomes politicized and aestheticized by ‘mother of militarism’ or ‘Chonghubuin’ under the ‘new regime theory’ at the end of Japanese colony. As long as Chosun belongs to Japanese colonial regime, the ‘good wife and wise mother theory’ could only stands for the form of isolation that was forced to assist and serve.