검열자와의 소통 공간으로서의 일기 - 1930년대 대구공립고등보통학교 남학생 A의 일기를 중심으로 -

Abstract

A diary that records the everyday life of an individual and his/her thoughts is not only a significant record of his/her life but also serves as a text with which the people of the subsequent era consider the history of the individual in question. Since the 2010s, diaries have been an object of research in various domains, which indicates the value of diaries as a text. In previous studies, the notion of ‘an individual’ has been emphasised in connection with diaries, and diaries have been treated as ‘the record of an individual’ that is not accessible to other individuals. Diaries in the modern education of Japan, however, were written on the condition that they were reviewed by teachers, and they are thus different from the diaries as ‘the record of an individual’, which are written with the writer’s free will. That is, it would be reasonable to assume that the diaries in the modern education of Japan do not directly reflect the secrete aspects of life of an individual and his/her idea. In this article, I analyse the diary of a male student in Daegu from the perspective of communication with reviewers in colonized Joseon, and in so doing, I provide a new interpretation of students’ diary in a colonial era.