식민지시대 미국 유학생의 장소표상과 주체 구성 ―고학 체험기를 중심으로

Abstract

This article explored stories of students studying in America under

adversity, which was written in the colonial period. These stories are the

documentaries on the students leaving from hometown to move to a strange,

foreign area and experiencing other cultures and people where they meet

there. Through examining these, this article explored the relationship

between their experiences of American culture and the formation of the

intellects' subjectivity in the modern period in Korea, for students studying

in America. This issue is interpreted from the standpoint on the ‘living

world as dailiness’, or living space for each individual and the relationships

of ‘experiences’ between subjects and the area, not the semantic network,

America as a country, culture, and Western modernization.

This views American society from ‘insides’ eyes,' and shows the feature

of perceiving and reprentating the world as a field of survival game, not as

a sense of security in a phenomenological place study. Their representation

of place shows the loss of placeness, created by the capitalistic

modernization; nevertheless, it shows different aspects from place

representation of Western modernization, that is, ontological security of

human and self-identity are involved in ‘placeness’. This shows the point of crack, created in the inside·outside boundary, daily experiences of place in the outside world, each going through among colony people.

This non-placeness, shown among students studying in America in the colonial period, an example of showing not only general dimension, human isolation from the place created by capitalistic modernization, but also another dimension created by the modernization; thus, a problematic point of crack, revealing dimention of the subject and the place, created by colonialization.