• 한국연극학
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• 제48호
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• pp.51-84
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• 2012

In Korea, historical plays took an epoch-making turn from the previous historical plays in terms of approaches to topic and material and methods of rewriting history in the 1990s. Historical plays became dehistoricized with individual, everyday life, and faction emerging as major codes of historical plays according to mistrust in history and grand narrative as the original and disappearance of trust in the growth and totality of history. A new trend became dominant of presenting fictionality prominent instead of reproduction of history and freely playing with history outside the context. While modern historical plays were subject to the content of history, post-modern historical plays sought after new history writing to tell a new story on history within a framework of fiction. Focusing on some of the trends in post-modern historical plays since the 1990s, which include play with history, daily life-style history writing, and reproduction patterns of colonial modernity, this study examined the goals, representations, and text strategies of new history writing in three historical plays, Generation After Generation(2000) by Park Geunhyung, The Mercenaries(2000) by Park Sujin, and Chosun Detective Hong Yunshik(2007) by Sung Giwoong. In Generation After Generation, the author adopts a plot of starting with the present and tracing back to the past, breaking down the myth of racially homogeneous nation. At the same time, he discloses that the colonial history is not just by the oppressive force of Japan but also by the voluntary cooperation of Korean people. That is, we are also accountable for the colonial history of the nation. The Mercenaries contrasts the independence movement during the colonial period against the modern history developed after Liberation, thus highlighting the still continuing coloniality, namely post-colonial present. The past is presented as the "phantom of history" making its appearance according to the request of the present hoping for salvation. The author politicizes history and grants political wishes to history by summoning the history by personal memories such as fictional diaries and letters with Messiah-like images opposed to the present of collapse and catastrophe. In Chosun Detective Hong Yunshik, the author makes an attempt at the microscopic reproduction of daily life by approaching the 1930s as the modern period when capitalist daily life started to take root. The lists of signs comprising daily life in colonial Gyeongseong are divided between civilization and savagery and between modern and premodern. With the progress of narrative, however, they become mixed together and reversed in the representation system in which the latter overwhelms the former.

• 공연문화연구
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• 제39호
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• pp.357-392
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• 2019

이 논문은 1930년대 창극 형성 과정을 창극 유성기음반과 조선성악연구회(朝鮮聲樂硏究會)의 창극 레퍼토리들을 중심으로 재고찰한 것이다. 1930년대 창극 형성의 중심에 있었던 조선성악연구회의 구체적인 활동을 살피면서 그 의의와 한계를 논했다. 창극 유성기음반에서 구현되는 '입체창'과 '해설자' 역할은 조선성악연구회 회원들이 판소리와 변별되는 '극적 공간과 무대'를 인식하게 된 창극적 상상력의 구현으로 보았다. 그리고 창극 형성으로 파생된 서항석과 송석하의 '신창극' 개념의 차이와 의미를 논했다. 1930년대 무대 창극 공연은 '가극'이라는 지향점에 도달해야 한다는 논의의 반복이었는데, 당시 '가극'이라는 용어가 '창극'으로 대체되는 과정을 살폈으며 그 과정에서 창극 무대가 온전한 형태를 갖추게 된 것을 논했다. 조선성악연구회 회원들의 창극 만들기는 창극사적으로는 중요한 업적일 수 있으나 일제의 문화정책에 따른 '정제'와 '배제'로 인해 형식적 측면에서는 한계를 드러낼 수밖에 없었다. 판소리 음악성은 고양되었으나 시대정신과 다양성을 담을 수 없었기에 초보적인 창극적 상상력에 그칠 수밖에 없었다고 할 수 있다. 창극은 태생적으로 한계를 지닌 장르였지만 시대의 흐름 속에서 극복되고 있다고 할 수 있으며 이는 후속 논문에서 다루고자 한다.