재조일본인의 ‘재경성(在京城) 의식’과 ‘경성’ 표상 -‘한일합방’ 전후시기를 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper is what paid attention to how Japanese residents in Keijo made them identified with a place called Keijo and implemented their identity, which has been neglected so far in the existing researches. The target period was set to the time before and after Chosen-Japan annexation in 1910. In that period, they began to dwell in Keijo where is 'a capital of colony' of standing for Chosen, was indifferent to the historicity of others, who are natives there, and tried to newly form Keijo with giving priority to the historicity of their life. In the meantime, they had stood in the ambivalent position of recognizing self as the Same(同一者) in Japanese, as well as aiming to form the differentiated self from Japanese people who reside in Naichi(内地). Such ambivalent position had an aspect that allowed a sense of mission for colonial management to be rather filled further. As having been able to be known in 『History of development in Keijo(京城發達史』_1912), which described the history of political struggle in the settlement corporation in Keijo from the perspective called a change into 'subjectivism' from 'heroism,' a desire for the more specific self-identification proceeded with being projected in the representation of ‘Keijo’ in Japanese residents in Keijo, in a situation of "being changed both nominally and virtually into Chosen in Japan, not Japan in Chosen." That was ever accompanied by emotional violence called 'self-identification in Keijo' mostly based on nostalgic impulse. Also, such self-identification with Keijo was ever formed through a method of dissolving traditional sense of direction on such Keijo and a method of identifying with 'the present' by being historically retroactive to the origin in Japanese people of 'residing in Keijo'. This rhetoric was functioning as important element in forming their identity at that time, along with a sight of dividing into a dwelling place of Chosen people centering on a dwelling place of Japanese people.