특집논문 : 한국/학의 근대성과 로컬리티 ; 전시체제기(1937-1945) 매체에 실린 좌담회를 통해 본, 경계(境界)에 대한 감각의 재구성 = The Changes in the Concepts of Borderline during World War 2

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The people`s and nation`s borderline is conceptualized into two opposite senses; locale and universe, and they have respectively been developed into particulars and universals in the modern frame work. This paper deals with the processes of the development significantly reflected in round-table talks (座談會, a kind of symposiums) which appeared in periodically published magazines from 1937 to 1945. The talks held during the wartime underwent remarkable changes in the concepts or senses of the borderline. But under the controlled situations with no freedom of opinion, the participants were forced to speak Japanese and to conceal the distinctive differences between the dominating and dominated peoples. Thus they showed the tendency to look into the enlarged spaces and progressive times from the Japanese empiricists` point of view but this trend only triggered the change in the senses of borderline but had no effect on its motif itself. The senses of the borderline shown in the talks were not based on the geographical communities like an European bloc or a Russian Bloc but racism, contrary to the participants` expectations. The Japanese racists or colonialists tried to unify Korea, Manchuria, Indo-China and their neighbors into a single stratified, unequal, racially discriminated bloc. Under the circumstances, the areas where the common but hard lives and experiences were being shared were forced to be incorporated into a part of the apparently and allegedly homogeneous universe, by which the stratifications set in. This process of incorporation can find its cause in the belief in universalism where life can be claimed to be translated or interpreted into words and where universalism itself means `progressive`. But there occurred resistances against this trend of universalism. We can find an example in a round-table talk concerning 『春香傳Chun Hyang Geon』 where the participants raised a strong protest and discontent against the commercialization of the Korean traditional culture. 林和(Lim Hwa) and others mentioned the areas where life cannot be translatable or interpretable. The impossibility of translation and interpretation including the recurrent discontents at that time caused the universals to be in conflict with particulars. Thus, the process of universals into particulars and its reversals could not be undergone smoothly. The aforementioned round-table talks do not reflect a typical model of the senses of the borderline between locale and universe. But they show that we should discard the way of thinking based on the relationship between locale and universe and look toward the future by taking into account the areas where the interpretation of life into words is impossible. We should avoid taking emphasis on being progressive only and take a new imaginative approach to space and time.