근대 장편소설에 반영된 향촌 지배층 변동 －1930년대 농촌 배경 장편소설을 중심으로－

Abstract

This study is to inquire into the shift of the ruling class reflected in the novels whose background is the colonized Hyangchon society. The colony ruling class means a group of cooperating for the colonial system, who is called as local worthies in this study. This group was made excluding the influential landed Sajok who was critical of colonial system when Japan tried to tighten the control of Chosun by dividing Chosun's administrative structure into the unit of Eup, Myun. In doing so, Japan made 'the ruling system of the administration-local worthies' rooted in Hyangchon society. The organized system made the intense control over from the upper part to the lower part possible. The growing influence of this local worthies meant the former ruling class's exit. And also, the Hyangchon society led by this local worthies did not have sound product activity and redistribution, if any, worse than before, so that the contradiction of the colonial economy tended to maximize. This group often caused class conflicts in the course of economic ties, recreation of right and interests, sharing of the Hyangchon society's power of their own. The negative descriptions of the landowner and the capitalist in modern novels result in the animosity towards their economic monopoly and collusion with the colonial power. This quality is shown commonly in not only the writer on pro-literature side but also the non-classist writers such as Hyun, Jin Geon, Yeom, Sang Seop, Chae, Man Sik, Lee, Tae Jun, Park, Tae Won who saw right through the contradiction of the reality of the colonial ruling situation. Even if the writers' thoughts or the reality in their works did not disclosed enoughly by the device of the Japanese censorship, their works meant that the corrupted lives of the local worthies born by the Japanese colonial system were supposed to come to the end with the Japanese ruling. Additionally, modern writer's orientation, that is, modern, which these modern writers tackled commonly targeted the family consciousness and patriarchal hierarchy in old times. This critical quality resulted in a belief that situation beyond the colonial situation should be a modern, not because mostly they are of Jungin class.