蔡萬植 小說 硏究 : 식민성과 탈식민성을 중심으로 = (A) Study on Chae Mansik's novels : Focusing on the colonialism and postcolonialism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is very difficult to extract a common ism from Chae Mansik's novels, as they are of various nature. His Japanophilism makes it more difficult in interpreting and analysing his literature.
This study is searching for the process of colonialization and post-colonialization in his novels in the view of post-colonialism in order to find out any consistency in the nature.
Chapter 2 deals with the meaning of 'space' shown in his novels. Chae Mansik used 'space dividing' and 'naming' to show that Chosun dynasty had been changed into the society of Big Brother like panopticon.
He picked up the very nature of colonial society by expressing the downfall of the people in the space of the controlled society. The space was sometimes a school or a factory, sometimes a flour mill or a brothel. Anybody in the society was a victim of the colonialism in his view. He thought there was no way to overcome the colonialism. It seemed to cause his interest in nihilism.
But one should not underestimate the fact that he already understood the nature of colonialism and the fact that he protested against the colonial ruling classes. Because the facts became the basis of his will to watch for the recolonialization and to rebuild people's history.
Chapter 3 focuses on how a man turns into a colonialized subject as well as how Japanophilism comes out in Chae Mansik's autobiographical novels, posthumous manuscripts and essays published in 1940s. It is found that autobiographical novels consist of the internalization of colonialism in subject's mind through memorizing his childhood. Chae Mansik's posthumous manuscripts show that the author's social consciousness was split. A character of an educational person was the typical way to express that.
The method to overcome the character's divided social consciousness was self-colonialization which means that the character tries to become Japanese. After getting the self-identification, next step was to express the author's Japanophilism. His Japanophilism was at the top when he accepted the Japanese imperialism and tried to be a Japanese subject. Also he established the East-west confrontation format and accepted the formula the East=Japan=Chosun which is called the Great East Asian Mutual Prosperity.
But one thing to be remembered is that the idea had already been accepted by Chosun civilization movement occurred in 18th century. The fact that Chae Mansik accepted the idea can be said quite natural consequence.
Chapter Ⅳ focuses on the novels after the independence of Korea as well as the ones before independence but having same social consciousness. The novels tells the way to overcome the colonialism.
What he did first after independence was to remove the remaining vestiges of colonialism and to build the independent country. This was requested as a form of self-criticism by authors. Chae Mansik himself did his self-criticism in public and wrote novels showing his regret. His self-criticism seemed deep and sound. But there was a limitation in that his guilty feeling didn't attach the analysis of the reason for accepting colonialism and in that the criticism itself was uncertain.
He picked up the characters who try to take care of themselves in the chaotic atmosphere after independence. Re-colonialized subjects at the time were of the same nature as the ones before independence. Based on the self-criticism and the protest against the social confusion, Chae Mansik tried to rebuild subordinators' history who stood against the unjust ruling power by using an old lady as a delivery person of history in many novels.
He took precautions against American domination and re-colonialization by examining the process of colonialization by the imperialism. But his effort couldn't be finished because of his continuous sickness and finally death. He found a character to rebuild history. It was 'the next generation' repeatedly shown in his novels. But again he had a limitation in that he insisted rebuilding history equals to breaking it.
As seen above, Chae Mansik's novels in the period of Japanese rule have not only the relationship between colonialism and postcolonialism but also interaction between them. His efforts for breaking colonialism in that period became the basis of postcolonialism after independence. It is the basic and main thing showing variety at the same time as well as showing a consistent nature in his novels.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = ⅰ
• ＜Abstract＞ = ⅲ
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구 목적 및 연구 대상 = 1
• 2. 선행 연구 검토 및 연구방법 = 10
• Ⅱ. 식민적 공간 구획 및 재편에 대한 비판 = 22
• 1. 공간 구획과 명명(命名) = 24
• 2. 훈련된 육체의 구성 공간, '학교'와 '공장' = 33
• 3. 민족 자본 수탈의 공간, '미두장' = 45
• 4. 성(性) 상품화와 전통 가치 붕괴의 공간, '유곽' = 52
• 5. 식민 공간 재편의 축도, '군산' = 66
• Ⅲ. 식민 담론의 수용과 식민화된 주체의 구성 = 75
• 1. 왜곡된 근대화 담론의 무의식적 수용 = 76
• 2. 지식인들의 식민지 주변인화 = 85
• 3. 자기식민화를 통한 주변성 탈피 = 101
• 4. 식민 담론의 자발적 재생산 = 110
• Ⅳ. 식민성의 극복과 신식민성에 대한 경계 = 124
• 1. 자기식민지화에 대한 반성 = 125
• 2. (재)식민화된 주체에 대한 비판 = 135
• 3. 민족 정체성 찾기와 역사 재조명 = 147
• 4. 다음 세대를 통한 식민성 극복의 기획 = 152
• Ⅴ. 결론 = 164
• * 참고문헌 = 168