1930년대 문학에 나타난 ‘모던 상하이’의 표상 - 김광주의 문학적 글쓰기를 중심으로

Abstract

This essay tried to read Shanghai expressed in Kim Gwangju's writings and interiority of his literature through representation of Shanghai. Shanghai is a decolonized place of being able to be free from colonial subjugation for colonized Korean, being also a colonial place of struggling among the world imperialist nations and a hybrid place raveled with cosmopolitan liberty and capitalist pleasure. In Kim Gwangju's novels, a revolutionary who cried out for national liberation freedom of thought become a opium-smuggler and honest and innocent low class who had left from Korea to make money degraded to urban poor and prostitutes. These situations are described with corresponding features of Shanghai. Specially, hybridity of city Shanghai obviously appeared as contrast representations of 'revolutionary and opium'. 'Justice and moral' and 'smuggling opium' are regarded as symbiotic relationship or both sides supporting Shanghai. It is interesting that 'Sexual open area' of Shanghai allowing daily sexual dissoluteness is expressed paradoxically as the space of extending autonomic sphere that individuals can define and control themselves' bodies. It is sure that Shanghai is the place in which malecentric discourse prevails, but the city is the place far from monolitic sexual discourse because it is where multirace and multiculture coexist. Modern Shanghai in Kim Gwangju's works, has hybridity of being irreducible to a homogenious thing. In short, we can find landscapes of representative modernity of Shanghai developing quickly as cosmopolitan giant and meet typical scenes which capitalist modernity operates reification of humane in his works.