차등 근대화와 식민지 문화구조

Abstract

This paper started from these points : printed old style novels during colonial period of Korea ought to be considered not only as a part of modern culture, but also be deservedly comprehended as a new catalyst for appreciating modernity. In other words, we need to be free from a prejudice thinking 'printed old style novels' were nothing more than the vestige of old days. In fact, old style novel of 20th century co-existed with western modern culture rising in colonial Korea. It externally seems to be a usual overlapping in age of civilization shift. In other hand, however, we may not miss that it was a result from an unusual cultural structure due to the colonial intervention. There were dual discriminations in the survival conditions of Korean traditional culture such as old style novel : Publishing old style novels was an inevitable choice for Korean publication capitals who could not compete with advanced publications from mainland Japan; at the same time, old style novels were excluded as a old days legacy by new elites of colonial Korea who were pursuing the social hegemony with a strategy ― discriminated modernity. However old style novel was what symbolized ‘Colonial Subaltern’s cultural subjectivity and also one of important elements that influenced on social perception and cultural psychology. Due to pressure which would generalize western culture as a main stream, we have been ignorant about essential influences of both the perceptive method of traditional society and aesthetics system. If the substantial role and impact of traditional narrative could be explained from a new perspective, not from evolutionary analysis, I think it might be possible to shed light on the modernity of Korea in a different level.