Reproduction Circuit of Modern Literature and Censorship
 
This treatise aims at looking into reproduction circuit of modern literature in condition of colonial period. In other words, I intend to prove colonization of reproduction circuit. Cen ...

Reproduction Circuit of Modern Literature and Censorship
 
This treatise aims at looking into reproduction circuit of modern literature in condition of colonial period. In other words, I intend to prove colonization of reproduction circuit. Censorship was used to break a stereotypical understanding that individual system(‘Deung-dan’ which means getting into the literary circles &‘Seung-In’ which means the approval regime) which consists of the circuit.
During early and middle of 1920s, [Gaebyuk] which was well known for ‘media centrism’ provided research materials the relations between reproduction circuit of modern literature and censorship. Thanks to awareness and pains of editors of [Gaebyuk], censorship of that time was almost restored. Especially, collation between each editions and the original copy resulted in statistical data’s periodical and interrelated authenticity in the time of confiscation and deletion. Reconstituted materials helped to make out the regard and intention of censorship’s main body.
In interpreting of materials, things were considered such as importance of [Gaebyuk] as a media and literary status of [Gaebyuk]. Also, historical status was considered because at that time socialism was accepted so gladly that it turned out to be a threat to an empire. Most of all, after the promotion of ‘Left-Right Aliiance’, it was considered as a fait complished among people in 1924~7 and all that influenced quite a bit.
Interpretation of documents explains next few things. First, during early and middle of 1920s, between the ‘Anti-Conventional School’ and ‘Unyielding Bourgeois Literature’, there exist the difference of censorship’s density. Second, as ‘Unyielding Bourgeois Literature’ was excluded from reproduction circuit, two trends run ideological parallelism. Third, through all those phenomenon, the plan of empire for Chosun’s modern literature was centered on division between Proletarian Literature and Bourgeois Literature so that literature of Chosun would be domestical.