최남선 기행문의 문화민족주의와 제국협력 이데올로기 - 『송막연운록』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study discussed the reinterpretation processes of Bul- hammunhwaron and Manmongmunhwaron in the embodiment process of imperialist logic mimicked and inherent in a travel essay and ideology of national harmony with a focus on Songmakyeonwoonrok by Choi Nam-seon. In his travel essay, Choi otherized the Manchu people as a people to become extinct and assumed Russia as an invader and enemy, thus attempting to capture them into Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In his travel essay, the descriptions of local history of Manchuria were assumed as a universal historical concept not restricted to the past local histories of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Korea. The author borrowed the theories of cultural diffusion and ethnic migration from Torii Ryujo and checked the sameness of northern cultures. The logic of Bulham culture around Joseon discussed in Bulhammunhwaron was restored to Greater East Asia Co-Pros- perity Sphere and thus reduced to the Manchuria and Mongolia culture, a northern culture around Central China. His Song- makyeonwoonrok accordingly confirms the influences of cultural diffusion on southern peoples by northern ones through a travel to Manchuria, and that logic converges as a fundamental principle to establish the national studies of Manchuria within the ideology of harmony of five peoples. Choi's anthropological thinking about Manchuria and Mongolia in his Songmakyeon- woonrok is thus mobilized to form the base of Culture of Manchuria and Mongolia and embody the founding spirit of Manchuria Nation.