• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.263-267
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• 2020

한국역사에서 일제강점기에 대한 당위적 결론은 종종 역사적 상상력을 압도하는 경우가 많았는데, <경성탐정이상>도 근대역사학의 한계를 지적하면서 등장한 역사추리소설장르임에도 비슷한 양상을 보여준다고 지적되고 있다. <경성탐정이상>에 등장하는 역사적 사실, 민족주의에 기반 한 독립의 당위성, 근대문명 등은 일제강점기 역사문화 콘텐츠에서 눈에 익은 구도이다. 이는 '상상의 공동체(민족)'에 대한 대중의 현재적 욕망을 현재로서의 역사, 현재의 사회적 갈등이 투사된 역사로 역사문화콘텐츠에 반영하기 때문이다. 역사를 다룬 콘텐츠들에서 역사, 역사적 사실, 허구는 뒤섞여지며 새로운 '역사적 상상'을 만들어 낸다. 실재로서 과거의 사실은 하나지만, 역사가가 만드는 역사적 사실은 하나가 아니라 여럿이듯이 역사문화콘텐츠의 역사적 상상은 다양하다. 아직까지 역사학은 미래를 위한 상상력으로까지 나가고 있지 못하지만, 역사문화콘텐츠를 통한 역사쓰기는 '가능성의 역사'를 만들어낼 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국연극학
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• 제48호
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• pp.51-84
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• 2012

In Korea, historical plays took an epoch-making turn from the previous historical plays in terms of approaches to topic and material and methods of rewriting history in the 1990s. Historical plays became dehistoricized with individual, everyday life, and faction emerging as major codes of historical plays according to mistrust in history and grand narrative as the original and disappearance of trust in the growth and totality of history. A new trend became dominant of presenting fictionality prominent instead of reproduction of history and freely playing with history outside the context. While modern historical plays were subject to the content of history, post-modern historical plays sought after new history writing to tell a new story on history within a framework of fiction. Focusing on some of the trends in post-modern historical plays since the 1990s, which include play with history, daily life-style history writing, and reproduction patterns of colonial modernity, this study examined the goals, representations, and text strategies of new history writing in three historical plays, Generation After Generation(2000) by Park Geunhyung, The Mercenaries(2000) by Park Sujin, and Chosun Detective Hong Yunshik(2007) by Sung Giwoong. In Generation After Generation, the author adopts a plot of starting with the present and tracing back to the past, breaking down the myth of racially homogeneous nation. At the same time, he discloses that the colonial history is not just by the oppressive force of Japan but also by the voluntary cooperation of Korean people. That is, we are also accountable for the colonial history of the nation. The Mercenaries contrasts the independence movement during the colonial period against the modern history developed after Liberation, thus highlighting the still continuing coloniality, namely post-colonial present. The past is presented as the "phantom of history" making its appearance according to the request of the present hoping for salvation. The author politicizes history and grants political wishes to history by summoning the history by personal memories such as fictional diaries and letters with Messiah-like images opposed to the present of collapse and catastrophe. In Chosun Detective Hong Yunshik, the author makes an attempt at the microscopic reproduction of daily life by approaching the 1930s as the modern period when capitalist daily life started to take root. The lists of signs comprising daily life in colonial Gyeongseong are divided between civilization and savagery and between modern and premodern. With the progress of narrative, however, they become mixed together and reversed in the representation system in which the latter overwhelms the former.