근대적 대중지성의 형성과 사회주의 (1)－초기 형평운동과 「낙동강」에 나타난 근대 주체

Abstract

This dissertation aims to argue that how socialism as modern-knowl- edge and liberation campaign interacted with formation of knowledge- subject. So I reread Cho Myung-hee’s novel, “Nakdong River” and reargue the Hyongpyong Movement, liberation campaign of Baekjung (butcher class). Socialistic knowledge which diffused to masses at 1920’s provided imagination that Korean society could leap from feudal system to a perfect non-class society. The Hyongpyong Movement showed the simultaneous advent of modern nation-mass-class and interaction between them. The Baekjung (butcher) class which had compelled to remain as invisible subalterns if it was not the case of an extraordinary struggle in revolutionary conditions became the subject of the Movement. Rosa, the heroine of “Nakdong River”, is a character which symbolizes new oth- erness or individuality that emerges between a collision of nation-mass- class and unresolved individuals into nation-mass-class. Radical progress of modern time literature which came from romantic ecriture of young literary enthusiasts was also connected to this dynamics. Rosa is an existence who broke a wall of discrimination and exclusion which had continued hundred years. The fact that a woman in the Baekjong class became a teacher means a radical social reforming happened in the early 20th century of Chosun. Liberation of Baekjong means liberation of all human beings because Baekjong had been untouchable slaves. Also, it was the universal liberation because women, another not-beings, were nominally included. Baekjongs regarded liberation of knowledge in the same light of emancipation. Subalterns who had been excluded from language and knowledge formed subjects, thereupon they became new knowledge-subject. “Nakdong River” describes these historical proc- esses clearer than any other novels. In conclusion, it is a text on peo- ple’s solidarity and liberation of knowledge.