‘법역(法域)’과 ‘문역(文域)’-제국 내부의 표현력 차이와 출판시장

Abstract

It is supposed there was certain regional deviation in censorship, which caused comprehensive influence on text －reading materials－, inside the Japanese Empire. Demonstrating this point of view, through the unique conceptions－‘jurisdiction’ and ‘limits of the possibility of representation in each jurisdiction’－, is what this paper focuses on. The ‘jurisdiction’ means certain sphere within which the criteria such as law, rules and administrative acts applied to censorship were in force over specific region and its residents. During colonial times, Korea was territorially belong to Japanese Empire, but was under the differential censorship criteria unequal to Mainland Japan. This distinction of jurisdiction came to be linked to the strictness differential in censorship, and this situation generally influenced the intellectual culture of colonial Korea. And by extension, this linkage became the background that made an asymmetrical structure systematically established between colonial texts and texts of mainland. As a result, the apodictic distinction due to this asymmetry was brought to the ‘limits of the possibility of representation in each jurisdiction.’Meanwhile, it was not an issue only to be confined to law and its application what caused all these phenomena. That is to say, also the Japanese publishing capital working throughout the empire should be regarded as one of the factors that created distinctiveness of the colonial texts. These views bespeak that the ‘limits of the possibility of representation in colonial jurisdiction’could be properly characterized, just with the comprehensive insight into state power and capitalistic activities.