김종한 『설백집』 연구: 번역과 일제말기 조선문학의 혼종성

Abstract

Seol-bek-jib is one of Jong-han Kim’s literary creation and translation in both fields reaching point, at the same time it is also a text showing the aspects that were sharply reproduced in Japanese literature of Joseon in the late colony. This study aims to examine the relationship between the translation and Japanese writing through Seol-bek-jib. As well as the uniqueness of Joseon literature that has been transferred into Japanese text. To Jong-han Kim translation was the process of tackling the impossible task of writing a poem that is not one’s mother tongue. He took the role of a writer, adapter, and translator mean while learning Japanese and Japanese poetry style for accurate poetic diction. Furthermore, to substitute the mother tongue, Kim stressed the radical root and homogeneity of both Joseon and Japanese culture. Through Seol-bek-jib, he would imagine a future that integrates Joseon literature into Japanese language literature. The way he intended integration was not integrated into Japanese literature with a focus on Tokyo literary world. It was to reorganize the Korean Literature as ‘Japanese language’ Literature constituting the whole of Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. This can be interpreted as Kim taking action through his new localism theory by attempting to create a center of Japanese language literature in Joseon. This was done by defying the existing language and literature’s power structure by ignoring the difference of language. Kim’s new localism theory aimed at decentralizing and turning over the ideology of the empire. This was an attempt of Japanese literature hegemony to mark the identity of Joseon literature in the Japanese language literature. However, the plan to assert the Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere and by remaking the Japanese language literature, Seol-bek-jib was created as a hybrid without a strong basis.