1920년대 ‘내지’ 시찰과 식민지 근대(성)

Abstract

This study has discussed the identity of Colonial people by examining an implicitly contradictory stance shown in some articles written by the members of the sight-seeing party. The following is a summary of the observation. In chapter 2, Kim Jaegyo's articles on observing inland was analyzed. While he criticized costumes, trade and imperialistic attitudes of nations, standing against the logic of colonial powers, he could not but to accept colonial domination having dependency on the colonial power. Here, such a contradictory awareness of a subject of colonial modernity was seen in the context of 'crack' of stance. It was followed by chapter 3 in which the independence of the members of the sight-seeing party reinforcing national identity in proportion to the colonialistic attitude to see Chosun from the viewpoint of imperialism was scrutinized. As such, this study illuminated the identity crisis in a contradictory situation between the colonized people and Chosun people. It also demonstrated there was a grey area where cooperation and resistance against the colonial power were intersected. This study argued that even though the dispatch of the members of the sight-seeing party in observing inland which was executed as a means of exhibitional cultural politics to induce the acceptance of colonialism, and to intend legitimacy and efficiency of the reign, the observing Inland itself became a trigger to form the colonized people's amorphous identity without being fully internalized or incorporated into the colonial power leading to establish cooperative but resisting halfway colonial subject.