일본군 점령시기 상하이 작가 선지(沈寂) 소설 연구— 문학과 매체의 관계를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research Shen Ji’s short stories and novellas in Shanghai under Japanese ruling, 1942-1945. Shen Ji (1924-2016) was one of the most popular and successful writer of the time, though, he has been overlooked in the current scholarly works on occupied Shanghai’s literature. The main goal of this paper is to close read and examine about thirty short stories and novellas by Shen. This paper also challenges the previous nationalistic intepretation of “anti-Japanese” put on Shen’s novellas, offering a pulural reading of the novellas. This paper has no intention of disparaging interpretation of “anti-Japanese” resist, but rather to deny it’s final and only position in reading Shen’s novellas. To this end, this paper applies a perspective of media, a method heretofore unused in previous scholarly works, with a focus on relationships between Shen’s novellas and literary journals. Shen’s novellas are closely related to litrary journals which printed his works. To be specific, each journal’s charicteristics such as editorial strategies, political background, cultural orientation of editor-in-chief could influence on Shen’s writing. Chapter two and three respectively examines works printed in The Fiction Monthly and The Phenomena Monthly: While the former provided the opportunity for Shen Ji, an obscure writer, to publish early works; the latter supported him to gain the fame as well as provided guidance about writing. During the period of prosperity, Shen mainly published his novellas in The Miscellany Monthly and The Spring and Autumn Monthly. In the former, Shen produced popular novellas which would increase the number of subscribers; In the latter, Shen wrote novellas in which locality and ciriticism were combined in an ambiguous manner.