일제 말기 종이연극(紙芝居)의 실연(實演)과 제국의 이벤트Ⅱ (Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 돈암어문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 돈암어문학 / 36권 / 292 ~ 318페이지
· 저자명 : 문경연

초록

본고는 일제 말기 ‘종이연극(紙芝居, 카미시바이)’에 주목하여 식민지 조선에서 기획, 공연된 종이연극의 레파토리를 수집하고, 종이연극이 기획되는 방식에서 현실효과를 발생시키는 지점까지 고찰해보고자 했다. 그 과정에서 시국인식, 방공방첩, 납세, 저축, 근로보국 등의 주제는 전시체제기 일본과 식민지에서 동일하게 호출되는 메시지였지만, 조선에서는 ‘지원병 모집’과 ‘국어상용’ 등의 주제가 특별 강조되는 주제였음을 확인하였다. 종이연극이 공연되고 발생시킨 미담 효과 안에서 ‘동원되면서 동원하는 자’라는 식민자의 이중적 지위에 주목했다. 식민지 조선의 종이연극은 특히 기민하게 당대의 ‘실화(實話)’를 종이연극의 소재로 활용하여 충량한 신민, 전쟁하는 신민을 주조하고자 했고, 적극적인 ‘현상모집’을 통해 제국주의적 성과를 서사적으로 상상하는데 식민지 조선인들을 동원하였다. 하지만 오락을 표명한 교화적 프로파간더로서의 종이연극이 어쩌면 오락적 효과 이상의 총후미담을 생산하는데 역부족일 수 있었던 반효과도 동시에 확인할 수 있었다.

영어초록

This paper aims to focus on and trace the production and stage performance of paper theatre (J. kamishibai) during the occupation of Korea by Japanese empire and shed light on its real effects. As the World War II drew to a close, the role of paper theatre as a cultural propaganda tool was reinforced, which made the Japanese Government General take more careful and closer control over paper theatre. This, in turn, serves as an evidence which attests to the status of paper theatre as part of the empire’s ruling strategy. The moving stories of the colonists who were so moved that they willingly made national defense contribution after watching the paper theatre would have made the imperial rulers expect an even stronger impact from the paper theatre.
This paper includes as its empirical data a substantial amount of Korean paper theatre repertoires during late Japanese colonial period, which I have secured as much as possible. In so doing, I was able to determine that messages calling for awareness of the current situation, anti espionage, tax payment, or savings were the recurring themes in both the empire and the colony alike during the wartime, while the “military recruitment” and “everyday use of national language [i.e. Japanese]” were the ones that were particularly underscored in Korean peninsula. “Descriptions” on the back of paper theatre scripts demonstrate the ambivalent position of the paper theatre performers as “the recruited and the recruiter.” The cases of reportage or true story based paper theatre in Korea are the cases, in which colonists were actively mobilized in imagining the imperial achievement in narratives through the prize competitions for new paper theatre scripts.

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