『흑치상지』론 : 민족을 상상하는 방식에 관하여 = The Study of Hukchisangzy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Hyun Jin Gun's literary practice excels in the colony modern writers who think the narrative writing of a nation. Hukchisangzy which includes the value of the theme about the opposition to Japan's imperialism asks the attention of researchers, although it is an incomplete literary work.
This essay explains about Hukchisangzy's literary character and meaning, expecially, it concentrates upon the imaginable way of a nation. Originally, the nation is a product of the modernity, but Hyun Jin Gun thinks that the nation is an organic community. He judged the purity of an organic community is defamed by the plunder of Japan's imperialism, and he tried to restore the defamation through the work. The nation, the organic community, includes the energy of the creation and collapse, and the opportunity of the destruction and restoration at the same time. Hyun Jin Gun thinks that the present nation is destructive and the nation in the future can be creative and revivable, if the nation in the past was creative and revivable. In short, he believes that the nation is the systematic organism. However, Hyun Jin Gun limits the category of the organic community is the formation of the paternalism community. In detail, it illustrates that Hukchisangzy is the nation hero who leads the paternalistic community, and madame, Chang-Hwa, is exacted by the system of community. To sum up, Hyun Jin Gun, who thinks the nation through the way of the sexual distinction, separates that roles of the men and women are the subjective role and the conciliatory role.
In this point, Hyun Jin Gun's nation narration could be criticized, because it grasps that the relationship of men and women is in the grade of ranks. In conclusion, although Hyun Jin Gun's nation narration has a problem, it has the literary significance and effect which oppose to Japan's colonization.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 연구방향
• 2. 식민지 근대와 원초적 민족
• 3. 가부장적 공동체와 민족의 부활
• 4. ‘훼손’된 민족에서 ‘순수’한 민족으로
• 5. 결론