‘해금’ 전후 금서의 사회사

Abstract

Important researches were recently presented that clarify an effect brought by a measure of removing a ban in 1988, but have the aspect of having concentrated only on the dimension called lifting the embargo on North Korea’s knowledge. Removing a ban on the authors, who were kidnapped by and defected to North Korea, was an event that caused a big change in the whole of the scholarship and knowledge field as well as literary history. Accordingly, an action of removing the embargo needs to be understood inside the whole banned-book system. For this, this study first reconstructed the whole image of the banned books in the 1980s. From before the measure of lifting the ban in 1988, the confiscation and the partial removal of the embargo were repeated. Through the government documents and the newspaper reports, which were produced in this process, the list of about 680 banned books was extracted. This list cannot be mentioned to be the whole banned books in the 1980s, but seems to be obvious in a point as saying of the list, which forms the center of the banned-book system. This writing was paid attention to the books that addressed the inside history of politics in the period of the Yushin(維新) regime of President Park Chung-hee even out of the list for these banned books. These books, which covered the other side of power that is linked to money and woman, correspond to a kind of political porno, and seem to be similar to a relationship between the French Revolution and the political porno that cultural historian Robert Darnton analyzed. The government seems to be afraid of the recognition in the people of having read this book as saying that the moral depravity of the Yushin(維新) regime is being continued even now. The banned books in the 1980s are awaiting newly diverse interpretations.