동아시아 지역표상의 시간ㆍ지리학-『문장』의 기행문 연구-

초록

This article is a study on the travel writings in Munjang. A travel is a kind of a modern writing, focused in the empirical reality and subjective authenticity. From the travels in Munjang, the transfer of physical space and 'geographical feature of imagery' as a representation of it, are discussed on a standpoint of the regional representation at the end of the colonial period and historical and temporal consciousness. The following is the logic behind making meaning of temporal and spatial geography on traveling in China. From Kyungsung of the 'present,' through dilapidated Beijing of the 'past' and Korean residence town of the 'present-future,' a battlefield, a spot of timeless 'eternity,' is passed. This time and space are for the traveling of consciousness, on the writer's view, departing from 'ailing I' in Seoul, acquiring the vast land in the past as a trophy, and coming back to 'robust I' like an empire. In this manner, while the travels in China show a way of separating and sharing the prospects for the future through division of the space and the differentiation of the time; the travels in Japan and the Western area show different way of temporal geography. The travels in German show 'the Western world' on how an individual enjoys a certain area in the world, and the travels in Tokyo show how to write on Tokyo(Japan) in the 'contemporaneity of the present.' This way of appropriation of the region, focused on the contemporaneous experiences of the present, is making meanig of a certain area for each individual's experiences, free from 'the authority of civilization' of the Western world in the previous. Free from the order of 'the Western→Japan→Chosun' on the historical development, this is representing the Western world, Japan, and Chosun within the strong 'contemporaneity.' The geographical feature of imagery in these travels in foreign countries can be something that represents the virtuality on changes in rank of the Western and equality with Japan, through 'time' and 'region.' The time, centered in 'experiences of the present,' is something that assigns the fantasy on the development of 'past→present→future,' future 'the Great East Asia' dividing and appropriating China(the Orient). The way of transposing to the historical stage, through the division of places in China(Beijing, Korean residence town, and a battlefield) and its temporal separation, is like a relationships between heads and tails of coins and contemporaneous appropriation of the Western and Japan; and has 'formative' relationship with self-consciousness of Chosun. Travels in Korea's old capitals in Munjang show the mechanism of 'direct selection and removal' in the process of self-image formation. This travels in the domestic area, especially written on Buoyu and Pyeongyang, establishment of historical remains inside Chosun, which confirms the historicity of the unification between Japan and Korea, and the way of consumption across the region through travel industry by the modern capitalistic developmentalism. Specifically, of the travels on these two areas, one creates new virtual space(Japan-Korea) by the interpretation of time, which contemporizes the past into the present; the other removes the past(Dangun) by specializing ideologies in the domestic areas, and shows the modernistic temporal geography(Pyeongyang), that is the expected horizon toward the future of development, improvement, and exploration. Therefore, an image as of aesthetic and of Chosun on the authority of an identification, on the standpoint of Munjang, should be flashed back complementarily with this ideological changes in the appropriation of domestic areas. This image should also be considered within the frame of outside appropriation, comparatively combined with these travels.

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