<토지>에 나타난 동아시아 도시, 식민주의와 물질성 비판

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research the perspective of colonialism, nationalism and modernity in the later colonial period by analyzing the narrative centered on and in east Asian cities; Kyungsung(Seoul), Tokyo, Xinjing, in Toji. Kyungsung(京城, Seoul) in Chosun is the place for portraying the duplicity of colonization and modernity as a center for Japanese colonial rule. We can read the various perspectives of the history in the first half of 20C and the wandering and frustration of the intellectual in Toji. The writer Park banter with wasteful person, through characterizing Jun Gu Cho, so called ‘Seoul－Yangban’, in the negative. And a negative view of the colonialism and modern civilization is figured in Toji. Tokyo(東京) in Japan as a narrative setting enters as a background concerning the intellectuals, the major group of the latter part of the novel. Especially the writer chooses Tokyo as a place for portraying the duplicity of the Korean students in Japan and the deteriorated lives of the migrant Korean laborers. What is striking is the loves and conflicts between Korean and Japanese, and the free and peaceful development of the second generation. This story line touches the fundamental theme of life and freedom overcoming the racial discord. Xinjing(新京), the capital of Manchuria, was the base of an aggressive war and the place where the national conflict among Korea, China and Japan was very acute. Japanese intellectuals staying in Xinjing are depicted centered on their parasitism and reflection. In the end of the narrative, east Asian three cities are drawn as the place devastated by materialism and the fear of the war. As a result of analyzing the narrative centered on and in east Asian cities, it is revealed that Toji is the work aimed at the peaceful coexistence of lives through accusing the material development of fallsehood and criticizing Japanese policy of aggression.