1920년대 한일소설에 나타난 조선인의 민족성 비교

Abstract

The Japanese Empire disseminated the inferiority theory of Joseon people through colonial discourses as a part of its cultural governance policy. In response to this attempt, the national camp of Joseon emphasized the splendid history and nation's cultural tradition to ensure national identity and ethnic superiority. The discourses over modernity as the governing ideologies in 1920s including civilization, social evolution and renovation theories have contributed to the production of the inferiority theory of Joseon people. This study addressed novelists Yeom Sangseop, Choe Seohae, Nakajima Atsushi and Nakanishi Inosuke and raised a question against the discourse of Japanese superiority versus Joseon's inferiority. Yeom Sangseop rejected identification with Japanese through the awareness of national identity; Choe Seohae demolished the ethnicity of Joseon defined as submissiveness through the rebellious resistant violence; Nakashima Atsushi disclosed the deceptive illusion of the campaign 'Japan and Joseon are one body'; Nakanishi Inosuke dissolved the fabricated inferiority theory of Joseon people. Although their writings could not break down the inferiority theory of Joseon people reality. their implication in literature history can be found in that they demonstrated the possibility to break the binomial antagonistic system of Japanese superiority versus Joseon's inferiority.