일제 강점기 만주의 농업 기술을 통해 본 민족 문제 시론(試論) - 안수길의 작품을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper has approached the problematic place called ‘Manchuria’ in the history of Korean literature during Japanese Colonial Period through an agricultural technology as a way of an ethnic issue - that is, specifically aiming at a paddy field(水田) where the diaspora group of Joseon Dynasty had succeeded at that time. Manchuria is a very critical space in discussion of Anti-colonialism in the history of Korean literature. The concerns of intellectuals about Manchuria in early modern times sharply increased after the Manchurian Incident, and simultaneously to modern writers, it was a hybrid space that it was possible to realize the ethnic utopia frustrated in reality and to make the imperial dementia - ‘the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’. As a result, it is difficult for modern writers who have dealt with Manchuria in the latest studies of Korean literature to be free from a dichotomy between resistance and cooperation. However, ‘The Uprising on Manbo Mountain’ which becomes the source of modern writers to configurate Manchuria gives a new vision about this problem. So far ‘the Uprising on Manbo Mountain’ has been called a synonym for ‘ethnic sufferings’ of Korean (Joseon) diaspora group and ‘the overcoming’. Considering Chinese tenant farmers who had the most severely harmed because of the conspiracy between Chinese landowners and Japanese, but, nowadays the significant things in the incident are a capital and hierarchical problem rather than a nation. It is the reason why we should examine the texts of modern writers who have used this incident as the writing material in the point of post-nationalism view. A paddy field in Manchuria was the index of ‘Korean-ness (Joseon-ness)’, but it gradually became a capital-friendly technology as time goes by. The eyes of ethnic insiders about it can be founded in An Soo-Gil's works which had differently recognized modern farming system by times in accordance with the agricultural policy of Manchoukou (Manchu State) - the Japanese puppet state. <Byeo;a rice plant>, <Mokchookgi;a stock farming record> and <Bukhyangbo; a genealogy of Northern Home> show the process that the position of Korean (Joseon) farmers had been changed from ‘the master’ of Manchu agriculture to ‘the student’ with the eyes of insider by making them in the work. ‘Concordant Theory’ is remarkably shown in the narrative attitude of the writer about the position of Korean farmers because the focus of Manchu agriculture was changed from ‘a paddy field’ to ‘stock farming’. Accordingly, it is meaningful to reveal the ethnics issue in Manchuria during Japanese colonial period in the relation between an empire and a capital by expanding the methodology of narrative study about the history of Manchu reclamation which is still in conflict with a dichotomy.