식민지 근대 부르주아의 표상의 정치학, 개벽사 『별건곤』의 ‘조선의 자랑’호 연구

초록

The 94 articles from ‘The Edition of Chosun’s Pride’ published in 1928 in 『Byeolgeongon』 have been dealt with by interpreting our real boundary through the issues: 1. Who we are (historical legitimacy and cultural uniqueness), 2. We have the right (right to equality through comparison with others), 3. What it is that we have (claim of ownership according to the right), and 4. Who our representative is. This allowed us to examine the other points, which are different from a way of thinking of putting ‘oneself’ at the edge of timetable of the world development through catching up with the time of the civilization or social darwinism before the First World War, or from the Dangun, locality, feminine imaginary of comparing ‘oneself’ to non-utility, non-capitalist, and non-modern mental symbols after in the 1930s. The ‘Joseon-we in common’ stressed out in those articles shows us a discourse strategy of comforting oneself in the time progressing and the time in the future, i.e. into the development theory continuum to the past-present-future, and of appropriating the cultural identity given from the past with the property owned by the subject of the modern development theory. At the same time, the subject of the development theory has the face and back of a coin. In other words, it is the politics of representation of imaging the sovereign legitimacy of a nation (ethnic), which is absent on the ground of cultural rights. For the ground of such rights(property right and sovereignty), their dynamic appropriation of politics have been examined, which interpret ‘imperial modern knowledge’ and ‘universal academic knowledge’ as their cultural legitimacy and capitalistic ownership. However, this strategy of severance and transition of the dynamic locutionary coordinate allowed us to find out that another politics in specific historical circumstances is realized, which is the plan of bourgeois nationalist media of colonial Korea from 1925 to 1928. The period was over the time shortly after the self-government theory was ignited first in 1925 and secondly in 1928. It was the time when the topic of the united front, coalition, and mass-unity was raised in the Joseon social discourse. The analysis of the ‘self-government’ theory and of ‘The Edition of Chosun’s Pride’ in 『Byeolgeongon』 as well revealed that at the time when the contemporary split was visualized and the integration became the agenda of the times thereof, they were performing the politics of representation and the discursive politics to persuade Koreans to regard the cultural uniqueness and independence of Joseon, the list of properties owned by the Koreans at that point of the contemporary, and the character as the real owners of those properties, as the pride of Joseon.

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