가라시마 다케시(幸島驍)의 중국 현대문학 연구와 조선

Abstract

This paper tries to investigate the Literary studies and thought of Karashima Takeshi(辛島驍), who involved Korean literary circles in 1940’s, as the character of Japanese of Colonial Korea. Karashima was described as a scoundrel who on the aspect of culture represents oppressive colonial reign of 1940’s in Korea. Also in Japanese postwar novel he was described as the embodiment of militarism. This evaluation on Karashima shows the intention that Korean and Japanese tries to charge on him the responsibility of miserable reign, but can not reach to the structural paradox of colonialism. Karashima was a professor of Chinese literature and regarded as the highest authority of China in colonial Chosun. The uniqueness of his thought was originated in trying to catch the otherness of colony by focussing on the present, not past, of colonial societies. This is the reason that he could study on the Chinese modern literature criticising the old studies of Chinese before the society of Chinese literature study of Takeuchi Yoshimi(竹內好). His lens to catch the otherness was novel and play. He was the only academician who introduced the modern chinese literature. He also interested in Chinese and Korean play. In that he could catch the thought of anti—imperialism and anti—Japanese. He lost his lens to catch the otherness by participating in the colonial governance as the expert in China. But he got identity of Japanese of colonial Korea which could be characterized as the ambivalent position. Japanese of colonial Korea castrates the otherness by positioning themselves on difference from not only Korean but also Japanese of Japan. They stand on the identity of Japanese in the relation to Korean, and the that of Korean in the relation to Japanese of Japan. This was also the character of Japanese Orientalism(亞細亞主義) that Takeuchi asserted.