이태준 소설에 재현된 식민지 조선의 학교

Abstract

This paper aims to consider the aspects of school and school culture as a background in the fiction of Lee Taejun, and to reveal the relationship between those and colony education culture of those days. Educational system is a signal implying the arrival of modern power and school is the place in which authority is used. The colonial mode of modern school system is hided in the form of inclusion and exclusion, which can be seen from school attendance. People who talk about the order are saying the division of rank. That assumes the explanation of and the fake justifying inequality. In his fictions, Lee Taejun showed the inequality of educational system solidified by exam, school expenses and gender distinction. And through the students and teachers, he made the eyes and voices criticizing or disclosing the fake of school shown. Schools and teachers are created and reorganized in the net of school system, which contains discourse, role and desire. Examinations are related to both observation considering rank and judgement of normality. By the standardization process of examinations and lessons, schools categorize students as the object and make its point of view about students ‘to be seen’ by themselves. Modern power organize the subject in this manner and produce individuals who can be controlled. 'The speaking, reading and writing' accomplished in school, have a purpose in training students to behave in a directed way. But in the fictions of Lee Taejun, they couldn't be a turning point of history, who are 'normal' individuals laid in the new power of schools. The writer created a new kind of characters who deviate from the power of writings and examinations. He, having experiences as a student and a teacher, appropriates the methods of speaking, reading and writing taught in school and represents the image of students and teachers criticizing schools. In the colonial political situations, behaviors deviated from standardization process are considered as illegal and the students and teachers taking such an actions are branded as 'criminals'. When it is out of 'the standard', the voices of students and teachers are dismissed from school. But, when the system promising the realization of equality is revealed as a fake, it comes the educational aspiration and the ethics of knowledge which surpass the expectation of Japan. The intellectual adventure of characters shown in the fictions of Lee Taejun, lead the readers to reorganize the thinking system about the education, equality and politics. The writer, Lee Taejun, transfer the passion for the role and the study to the readers with his fictions.