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A Study on the Modernity and Inner Consciousness in the Early Poetry of Oh Jang-hwan

KimJiYul 1

1경상대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I will look into how the multilayered modernity showedin the early poetry of Oh Jang-hwan influenced the inner consciousnessof modern subject. In other words, I want to confirm the correlationbetween modernity and inner consciousness by demonstrating thecomplex inner consciousness of modern subjects through more detailedcharacteristics of colonial capitalism modernity. The 1930s was a special and complex period time of 'modern' and'colonial', and the colonial subjects internalized the multilayeredcontradictions of colonial modernity. In the early poetry of Oh Jang-hwan,the distance of objectivity and observational gaze are revealed bybecoming the other. This gaze is in contact with the reflectiveintelligence of the modern subject wandering between the conviction andskepticism about modernity. In addition, modern subjects who are faithfulto personal desires in the values and ideologies of modern and premoderntimes experience the division of subject by being exposed to thecontradictions of colonial modernity. Finally, the spaces including citiesexperienced by modern individuals are the space of social existence andbecome an indicator of individual values and imagination. They also experience racial discrimination and class distinction in the colonialmodernity and disillusionment of reality in decadent and enjoyablecultures.

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