식민지 조선에서 ‘헨리·제임스·조이스’라는 기호

Abstract

The acceptance of foreign literature in colonial Joseon accomplished postcolonial effects frequently. In other words, it was made to be an opportunity used as a 'symbol' containing specific meaning by reconstructing foreign literature in setting its own problems beyond simple 'transplantation' of foreign literature. This appeared remarkably in the end of the Japanese colonization era when especially the freedom of creation was extremely intimidated. The acceptance of Henry James, James Joyce at this time needs to be illuminated in this respect. In Kim Namcheon's 「Waste」, the scene called 'Henry·James·Joyce' appears by combining two writers. This shows that it acts as a symbol to detect they had rebellious ideas at that time in short. In the case of Henry James, he would act as a cosmopolitan symbol contrary to the ideology of Fascism at that time and James Joyce would act as a symbol to imply a writer from a colony. These symbols provide significant implications in interpreting the works of Choe Myeongik, Yu Hangrim in the end of the Japanese colonization. In Choe Myeongik's 「Pyeeoin」, universally aesthetic consciousness represented as Lawrence and Gide is expressed, which advanced to 'Bangin' consciousness in 「Simmun(pattern in mind)」. This universal orientation and self awareness as Bangin can be evaluated to be specific expression of colonial absent awareness to imply the symbol of 'Henry·James·Joyce'. In the case of Ryu Hangrim, it shows the structure of the unique two-fold story through works such as 「Buho」. This can be seen to inherit the concept of 'point of view' that Henry James designed. Ryu Hangrim shows writing strategies to shape unique symbols and allegories at the point the inner story and the external story of the work collided through this structure. In particular, a point of establishing internal format to secure objective distance with fascist orientation emerged at that time as well as socialistic orientation past KAPF was hardened may be evaluated as very important achievements. In previous studies, the evaluation on Choe Myeongik, Ryu Hangrim tend to be reduced to the concept of psychological literature with somewhat wide meanings. However, considering positively the symbol of 'Henry·James·Joyce' distributed in the literature of the day, it can be evaluated to be successful in expressing unique 'Bangin consciousness' on the rise of fascism at that time or making objective distance through the type of two-fold story. Furthermore, it can be rated to be an important case to show postcolonial dynamics the acceptance of foreign literature has in colonial Joseon.