재미있고 유익하게, ‘건전한’ 취미독물 야담의 프로파간다화

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze and examine ‘Yadam’ produced in colonial Korea. It is true that a mixed character of ‘Yadam’ has been become the most obstacle to research for Yadam in colonial Korea. But Yadam is one of a few popular literary arts which had stood and fallen together the Colony Chosun. From Kim Jin Gu’s ‘Yadam movement’ with the intention of originating ‘the public area of people(Minjung)’ to coming ‘the public area of mass(Daejung)’ which identified woman and Chosun alphabet with Yadam, in this process the appearance and the prosperity of ‘a woman magazine’ helped to replace ‘woman=people’ with ‘woman-mass’, thus a history of Yadam was a tabloid edition of the Colony Chosun. Also These paradigmatic identification of woman, Chosun alphabet, Yadam and gender hierarchy imply the irony of history operated a circuit of the whole nationalization in ‘the public area of nation(Kugmin)’ at the latter half of 1930. The more a government-magazine wanted to gain women and children as reader, the more it not only placed a great deal of weight Yadam in the whole papers, proposing ‘interest and good’ or ‘enjoyment and use’, but also it took the head for being position mother, wife, sister as ‘madam in the rear guard(Chonghoo Buin)’ such as a wise mother and chaste woman, ‘printing’ Yadam in Chosun alphabet easy to read and understand. Being continuous with an excellent Chosun’s cultural tradition, Yadam was a suitable form enough for needs of the regime. Making Yadam propaganda within the regime had been worked through an ‘itinerant performance troupe’’s dog tour more and more generally and totally. It was ‘an itinerant performance troupe’ that the subject of cultural production did a action of social communication. Their performances were filled with repertories which pleased the eye and ear of the masses. An dispensable one of these repertories was one man performance like Yadam or Mandam. Therefore given the facts that making Yadam propaganda in the 1940s’ succeeded to ‘a historical drive for people’s enlightenment’ in the 1920s’ which Kim Jin Gu would come true by means of ‘Yadam movement’, it made us paradoxical judgement possible. The net conclusion of this thesis has been that Yadam remained alive until the end of the colonial period by made the ‘sound’ nation entertainment within the regime, and from this it contained its own trace would been exposed since the liberation from the colony.