대구지역 3·1운동의 기록과 문학자의 기억

Abstract

The March 1st Independence Movement is a large-scale national movement led by Cheondogyo, Chritianity and Buddism. Until now, there were a lot of studies from a national movement’s viewpoint about The March 1st Independence Movement. This paper is one of the studies on the March 1st Independence Movement’s multi-layered sides which was led by individuals and regions, not by Seoul, nation, religion. Up to the present, the March 1st Independence movement has been reappearing in survivor’s struggle for memory and continually reinterpreted in researchers’ present viewpoint. This paper sheds light on the March 1st Movement with a viewpoint of individuals and region. The March 1st Movement spread not only in big cities, such as Seoul, Pyeongyang, Daegu, but also small districts. And various individuals participate in the movement. The experiences of people who participated in the movement influenced the mode of living and their future life. With this as momentum, people, such as students, women, workers and farmers could get out of subaltern and emerge as a main agent in the front of Korean history. This paper concentrates on student writers who played a critical role in spreading the movement, such as Baek Gi-man and Lee Sang-hwa. They grew up in the atmosphere of patriotic enlightenment of Daegu region. Their experiences of large-scale historical movement and literary coterie magazine activity affected their development as noticeable modern literature writers. Especially ‘Sanghwa and Goweol’s Remembrance’ and records on the March 1st Movement written by Baek Gi-Man are the important data concerning restructuring Daegu’s regional literary history. However, we have to pay attention to the fact that these records were written after the independence, not during Japanese colonial era. Recollection of past experiences is sometimes erroneous due to individual subjectivity and present’s state. Moreover, there is a possibility of distortion and exaggeration. These records are the recollection of resistance movement that Baek Gi-man was directly involved in and is also the homage of Lee Sang-hwa. Although these records are not based on facts, these are very important because they may reveal inner landscapes of modern literature writers.