“새로운 신” 과학에 올라탄 제국과 식민의 동상이몽 －퀴리부인 전기의 소설화를 중심으로－

Abstract

The life story of Madame Curie has itself potential cracks among ‘individual, ethnic, nation and world’. Especially the Colonial Koreans read the story as a real example of overcoming ‘gender, ethnic and class’distinction by the tool of modern science. In this article, I traced the origin and the history of Madame Curie’s Biography in the Colonial Korea. Throughout the empirical study, I could determine exactly what text the readers read and how they impressed. They read a Japanese translated biography or a novelized Korean version, and they sympathized her status,colonies people. From a cultural historical and comparative literature approach, I could distinguish the different focus among their narratives. Although generally Madame Curie was known as a contributor to world civilization, in France, the first publishing place, she was called “Franco-Polish” who had immigrated from Poland ruled by Russia to 178 현대문학의 연구 44France. However, when Japanese wrote and read about her, she was a woman who was faithful to her duty and her nation. At last, the Colonial Korean accepted the story via Japanese version, and they focused on her national identity of a colonized people. Though the serialized novel about her life announced itself a Polish real story, actually it did edit the reality of the Colonial Korea. At that time, Japan encouraged their people self-help stories like Madame Curie’s biography. So strategically, although the story of Madame Curie which advocated Korean nationalism in the colonial period, it could go through Japanese censorship.