The aim of this study was to reevaluate literature of Park Hwa-seong published between 1933 and 1936 from the perspective of the travel epic. The characteristic of the returning point from one"s travel during the colonial period was" other-directedness." Travel destinations of this period with an in...
The aim of this study was to reevaluate literature of Park Hwa-seong published between 1933 and 1936 from the perspective of the travel epic. The characteristic of the returning point from one"s travel during the colonial period was" other-directedness." Travel destinations of this period with an intense yearning for modernity and enlightenment were Gyeongseong, Tokyo, Harbin, and America. Farmers whose land were taken away and subjected to exploitation were uprooted from their hometown due to natural disaster such as flood and draught. Subsequently they became diasporic people who lost their home and moved to a foreign place or a foreign country by force. Wandering, roaming, and living the life of an exile of the Korean people under the Japanese colonialism were the result of an expulsion by semi-coercion. Many people who were displaced and in exile selected to head north for the independence movement or revolution, and eventually returned home after the liberation from Japan. This is a consequential process of a journey from the leaving under colonialism to the returning. Diverse form of travels from studying overseas, for survival, to tourism are described in the travel literature of Park Hwa-seong. Thus, a leit-motif of her literature can be seen as the motif of travel and studying overseas. Park Hwa-seong was a vanguard intellectual as well as an enlightened female warrior. She aspired to study in Gyeongseong and Tokyo driven by her admiration for modernity and self-improvement. She was able to grow as an intellectual under colonialism through an exchange and friendship with fellow overseas students. Park and her literature were based on the experience of studying overseas, reading, and travel. The experience was diversely expressed in her works as an enlightening travel for studying overseas, leisurely tourism and sightseeing, and nomadic travel for survival. The background of her novels were train, railway, train station, and platform. Diary, telegram, and letter were the medium of correspondence. Many of the characters of the novels were overseas students in Tokyo, professors, and teachers. On the other hand, a social criticism was made by revealing a destitute daily life of the lower class living next to the railway, colonial exploitation, and malformed urbanization of the modern city. These works are not limited by superficiality nor cliche. instead, they were a basis for the direct experience. Thus it is a fascinating quality of the literature of Park Hwa-seong previously judged only by the ideology and class consciousness. Korean people under colonialism drifted in general as a collective body and lost home by the loss of national sovereignty. The characteristic of the travel during this period was "other-directedness," and the modern cities such as Tokyo. Gyeongseong, and Harbin became a destination for travelling. In addition there were semi-coerced departures for survival for the diasporic people who lost their land and home. On the other hand, tourism also existed including an excursion or a leisurely sightseeing which were commonly practiced between the mid 1920s and mid 1930s. The travel literature of Park Hwa-seong which belonged to one of the major literary genres of the early 1930s devised a symbolic space of modernity represented by train and railway. Accordingly it effectively expressed tribulations of life under colonialism and aspiration for modernity through travel for studying overseas(travel for learning), wandering travel, discovery or growth travel, and sightseeing.
The aim of this study was to reevaluate literature of Park Hwa-seong published between 1933 and 1936 from the perspective of the travel epic. The characteristic of the returning point from one"s travel during the colonial period was" other-directedness." Travel destinations of this period with an intense yearning for modernity and enlightenment were Gyeongseong, Tokyo, Harbin, and America. Farmers whose land were taken away and subjected to exploitation were uprooted from their hometown due to natural disaster such as flood and draught. Subsequently they became diasporic people who lost their home and moved to a foreign place or a foreign country by force. Wandering, roaming, and living the life of an exile of the Korean people under the Japanese colonialism were the result of an expulsion by semi-coercion. Many people who were displaced and in exile selected to head north for the independence movement or revolution, and eventually returned home after the liberation from Japan. This is a consequential process of a journey from the leaving under colonialism to the returning. Diverse form of travels from studying overseas, for survival, to tourism are described in the travel literature of Park Hwa-seong. Thus, a leit-motif of her literature can be seen as the motif of travel and studying overseas. Park Hwa-seong was a vanguard intellectual as well as an enlightened female warrior. She aspired to study in Gyeongseong and Tokyo driven by her admiration for modernity and self-improvement. She was able to grow as an intellectual under colonialism through an exchange and friendship with fellow overseas students. Park and her literature were based on the experience of studying overseas, reading, and travel. The experience was diversely expressed in her works as an enlightening travel for studying overseas, leisurely tourism and sightseeing, and nomadic travel for survival. The background of her novels were train, railway, train station, and platform. Diary, telegram, and letter were the medium of correspondence. Many of the characters of the novels were overseas students in Tokyo, professors, and teachers. On the other hand, a social criticism was made by revealing a destitute daily life of the lower class living next to the railway, colonial exploitation, and malformed urbanization of the modern city. These works are not limited by superficiality nor cliche. instead, they were a basis for the direct experience. Thus it is a fascinating quality of the literature of Park Hwa-seong previously judged only by the ideology and class consciousness. Korean people under colonialism drifted in general as a collective body and lost home by the loss of national sovereignty. The characteristic of the travel during this period was "other-directedness," and the modern cities such as Tokyo. Gyeongseong, and Harbin became a destination for travelling. In addition there were semi-coerced departures for survival for the diasporic people who lost their land and home. On the other hand, tourism also existed including an excursion or a leisurely sightseeing which were commonly practiced between the mid 1920s and mid 1930s. The travel literature of Park Hwa-seong which belonged to one of the major literary genres of the early 1930s devised a symbolic space of modernity represented by train and railway. Accordingly it effectively expressed tribulations of life under colonialism and aspiration for modernity through travel for studying overseas(travel for learning), wandering travel, discovery or growth travel, and sightseeing.
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