‘신체의 유물론’과 프로문학 1927년 『조선지광』의 유물논쟁을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to explore the first transition of Proletarian literature with a culturalpolitics perspective, focusing on the argument about materialism inJo-Seon-Ji-Gwang in 1927. Two different positions about materialism were conflictingthat led to active discussion in Jo-Seon-Ji-Gwang in 1927. The first position emphasizedthe finality of proletarians’ class by looking at materialism as ‘historical development.’ Thisdiscussion regarded human’s desire and willingness as a secondary thing, emphasizingmaterial conditions (productive forces). The second position argued that historical developmentis achieved by desire and willingness of the subject who is constructed by classand put emphasis on class consciousness with a perspective of materialism at the sametime. The transition of Proletarian literature in 1927 was emerged in this discourse. Unlikethe fact to be known, the second discussion underpinned the culture of socialism, embracingdisputants such as Yeom Sang-Seop and Lee Seong-Tae who were on the outsideof the Proletarian literature and disputants such as Song Young and Kim Gi-Jin who wereon the inside of the Proletarian literature. From this perspective, this paper tried to reconstructthe discourse of socialism around 1920 and create the ground to investigate theProletarian literature at the end of 1920 with the concept of “materialism of the body.”