유토피아적 상상력의 수용과 변용 : 김미연, 『번역된 미래와 유토피아 다시 쓰기

Abstract

Due to the development of science and technology, (re)discovery of the fantasy of science fiction is recently being done, with the perception of the sense that the future in imaginary has already arrived in the present. In terms 유토피아적 상상력의 수용과 변용 321 of accepting overseas science fiction, which has a major position in the history of Korean science fiction genre, “Translated Future and Utopian Rewriting - Translation and History of acceptance in the 1920s Science Fiction” by Kim Mi-yeon can confirm its achievements and significance. This book focuses on “Utopia,” a sub-topic of science fiction to find out the process of translation and acceptance of the pre-existed works on its genre, and examines Utopian literature that flowed into colonial Joseon in the 1920s in the context of seeking ‘Reconstruction’ criticizing Western modern civilization and capitalist society. In particular, by exploring translations from China and Japan and also double translations works from colonial Joseon, East Asia’s acceptance of the human view of Western modern civilization, that it can reach an ideal society, in other words utopianism was confirmed. This article compared Utopian literature, which this book by Kim Mi-yeon is paying attention to, to the relationship with science fiction, and reviewed the context of acceptance about Utopianism in colonial Joseon in the 1920s, and disclosed the results and significance of this book.