3ㆍ1운동 : ‘법정서사’의 탈환 피검열 주체의 반식민 정치전략

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate that March 1st Independence Movement provided a momentum for active anti-censorship in colonial Korea. Since two private newspapers were established in 1920, a great amount of March 1st Movement related articles including written judgments of the accused became noticeable and impressive contents for the reading public. This media space created by private newspapers which was ostentatiously permitted to communicate Japanese ruling power to the colonial people was inversely taken advantage of propagating unjust rule by Japan. When the written judgments and hearing reports of trials appeared before the reading public, in effect, a semantic conversion was generated.  Producing this sort of 'trial narrative' should be regarded as a main origin of the rhetorical attempt to converse the mechanism of the colonial rule and to re-organize it as a political strategy for resisting Japan. The existence of 'trail narrative' generated by March 1st Movement awakens us that censorship resistance was carried out not only in a passive way such as roundabout expressions evading the censors, but also very active way of metamorphosing the imperial discourse itself. That is to say, re-casting the ruling activities by the colonizer to a language of anti-colonialism by the colonized was what the written judgments and hearing reports of the March 1st Movement trials substantially achieved.