일제말기 『매일신보』 연재 장편소설 연구

Abstract

This essay embodied the characteristics of the novels in the late Stages of Japanese Imperialism, analysing the newspaper, ‘Maeilsinbo’, after the mergers and abolitions of the press in August, 1940 and figuring out the structure of serial novels. After the discontinuance of major private newspapers in August, 1940 and major literary magazines in 1941, Maeilsinbo was the only paper that could run Korean serial novels, whose total number was seventeen. Through scrutinizing medium characteristics of Maeilsinbo as an official paper of the Japanese Government General of Korea and a megaphone of national policy propaganda, the paper’s characteristics as a ‘literary field’, and the characteristics of serial novels, this paper seeks to identify the aspects and logics of the literature in the late Japanese Imperialism. The serial novels could be largely classified into 3 groups such as pop ular, lowbrow novels of morning paper, historical novels of evening pape r, and instigative materials of total war which directly helped the cooper ation and participation of the war. Popular, lowbrow novels took a role o f making narrative of everyday life and inducing conclusions of acceptin g national policy, linked with daily information or articles on living in th e newspaper. Historical novels revealed the intention of spreading the Na eseonIlche or ‘Korea and Japan are One’ policy, the Greater East Asia C o-Prosperity Sphere, loyalty, and patriotism, only to create collision due to the novels’ form. The serial novels at the last minute of Japanese Im perialism tried to directly embody the war stories and war human type, but ended up breaking collapse of narrative owing to excessive intervent ion of the war discourse. The serial novel is never free from the characteristics of newspaper, but not completely vested in it at the same time. The meaning of this study is to show the general flows of the novels in the late Japanese Imperialism, researching on the serial novels in Maeilsinbo.