식민지 조선에서 作家가 된다는 것- 근대 미디어와 지식인, 문학의 관계를 중심으로

Abstract

Meanings of thing to become writer in the colony Joseon is a difficult problem of being elucidated. I tried to examine only restrictively meaning of becoming writer by considering the interactional environment colonial situation and media in this paper. The press played role as both mediator of modern knowledges and spreader of modernity itself in the Colonial Joseon which couldn’t build nation-state and government of its own, which formed and functioned as a ‘center’ of consisting only the colonized, what is called newspaper government. Intellectuals resisting against imperial Japan regarded the press as only field of action being able to satisfy their social desires and moral duties. In the colony period, intellectuals’ main action was represented as writing in newspapers and magazines. In this aspect, position of literature is made clear. Under the colonial situation being prohibited free of political and social speech, literature was the writing form of transforming them into humane universalities and individual feelings. As it were, literature in the colony Joseon is placed in three apexes the following; colonial reality castrating the politic, desire of intellectuals socializing themselves, in spite of all these facts, and desire to include individual emotion in universality.