세계성, 민족성, 지방성 —일제 말기 로컬 상상력의 층위—

Abstract

The various discourses about the local(ity) in the late stage of Imperial Japan are interrelated with the empire/colony, local literature/national literature and world literature. This thesis examined the sphere of imagination about ‘local’ in the late stage of Imperial Japan. Specially, I noticed about how ‘the local identity’ was formed. First case is the guarantee of national identity through the representation of locality. Second case is related with the generalization of the ‘national’ as the ‘oriental’, and considers it opposite characteristics with the ‘western’. In third cases, the writer imagines the cosmopolitanism through the local nationality. First, in ‘the sphere of locality’, the thesis deals with the novels and essays of Lee Hyoseok and Lee Taejoon. The local centered characteristics and nostalgia about Western’s decline coexist in Lee Hyoseok’s novels or essays. In the other hand, Lee Taejoon imagined the national through the anti-modernity, and local centeredness. Second, in ‘the sphere of orient, the other national literature’, Choi Jeseo defined Korean Literature as the local literature compared with the national literature of Imperial Japan. Because he imagined the center so called the ‘orient=Japan’, ‘Chosun’ as the part of Imperial Japan could become the center. Third, in ‘the sphere of cosmopolitanism’, Lee Hyoseok de-constructed and re-appropriated the national literature in his own way. He projected the enrollment toward the world literature. So it can be defined as the ‘de-local’ local identity. Finally, these various trials which produced the ‘differences’ can evaluate as the movement for the formation of local identity in the late stage of Imperial Japan.