《조선일보》와 《소년조선일보》 속 현덕의 작품을 통해서 본 식민지 헤테로토피아

초록

While the Chosun Ilbo was a medium reflecting the colonial order as it was an adult world, the Boy Chosun Ilbo, which has the identity of a newspaper only for children, was a special space where people could enjoy a little freedom by being separated from the dominant order of the colony. In children’s newspapers, it was recognized as a modern sprout with a decent name of “child”, freed from the confines of being an inferior child produced in a colony. As such, “The Boys Chosun Ilbo” had the same function as “heterotopia”, a utopia that became a reality as well as a space of departure and escape. During the same period, Hyun-deok published novels and fairy tales in the Chosun Ilbo and The Boy Chosun Ilbo, repeatedly proposing a child protagonist named ‘Noma’. It should be noted that if the novel in The Chosun Ilbo depicts a Noma living in a ‘world of adults’ full of cold reality and absurdity, the fairy tale of the Boy Chosun Ilbo is a ‘children’s world’ with peace and coexistence. It means that he is drawing the inner normal. In the solid reality of the colonial rule, Noma is confronted and frustrated, but Noma, who is staying in heterotopia, grows safely and healthy. The space that reflected the wishes of colonial intellectuals who wished to grow in the right direction in a special space subtly hidden in reality was the Boy Chosun Ilbo, and it seems that the works of Hyeon-deok were the most visible.

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