김학철의 <격정시대>에 나타난 만주와 역사의 재현

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kim Hak-cheol is a representative writer of the initial Korean-Chinese literature whose works are focused on anti-Japanese movement experiences. This study, paying attention to the fact that Passionate Era is an autobiographical novel on Korean volunteer corps, explores memory theories in order to reveal Manchuria``s spatial qualities, the process of character``s identity formation and the appropriateness of the novel emerging as a modern epic. If novel is a type of literature that is closely attached to modern nation-state problems, Kim Hak-cheol``s writing was the demands of the times when he, fundamentally alienated from the nation-state, narrated the anti-Japanese struggle against modern pathology. In Passionate Era, Manchuria is a critical place of revolution which shapes the Korean volunteer corps`` history of the anti-Japanese struggle. The Korean volunteer corps consists of refugees, who have experienced the absurdity of being alienated from their own motherland due to colonialism. Nonetheless, they seek for the hope of national independence with topo-philia in Manchuria, where internationalism against Japanese imperialism is implemented. Thus, Kim Hak-cheol``s Passionate Era represents Manchuria as, instead of lost homeland, a land of struggle and hope evoking topo-philia. It commemorates the history of the Korean volunteer corps`` noble act of Anti-Japanese struggle upon their lives. In addition, it also reflects the strong desire for the Other that colonial Koreans, isolated from the colonial modernization and nationalism, summon as to respond to the uncertainty of beings.