1930년대 식민지 타이완의 ‘일본어문학’과 일본의 문단 저널리즘

Abstract

The most important development in 1930s Japanese literature was the appearance of writers from colonial background, as a new source of writing. This was initiated by Jang Hyuck Joo's debut as a writer, who comes from the colonial Joseon dynasty. Aguido, which illustrated the desperate lives and resistance of farmers mobilized at Gyeongbuk Byeokchon’s reservoir construction site, won the second place to the 5th a prize contest of Gaejo in 1932 organized by the Gaejo company. Later on, Jang Hyuck Joo continued to publish his writings on Gaejo magazine as well as many other pieces of literature, establishing his presence within the Japanese literary field as a writer. Moreover, his ‘literary success’ was not confined to just himself. Not only did Jang facilitate the debuts of aspiring Joseon writers, he also served as a source of connection to both. ‘Japanese language literature’ by 193o’s colonial writer is considered to be a product of mandatory ‘Japanese = Mother language’ distribution in education. However, there is a ‘time difference’ between the two incidents. It was only after 1938 that the use of Japanese language became mandatory in colonized countries under the name of imperial common language. This is of course, not to say that ‘colonial Japanese language literature’ was not related to imperial Japan’s language distribution policy. Had it not been for Japanese language education in ‘classes’ of colonies since 1910, such writers for ‘colonial Japanese literature’ could not have been produced. Despite this, colonial writer’s lingual selection choice to make their own piece of literature was made outside the direct control of imperial government.