ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

The modern nation Japan tried to control the body and spirit of the people based on eugenics. To achieve the goal, eugenic policy was implemented and enforced leprosy(Hansen's disease) policy. A typical policy is isolation and sterilization. Eugenics policy and leprosy policy in the Colonial Chosun was strongly influenced by Japan's policy a little later. Therefore, it is meaningful that many intellectuals in the Colonial Chosun aimed to improve the nation by participating in the magazine Eugenics. Leprosy literature is the record of the pain and indomitable life of leprosy's disease. Hojo Tamio and Han Haun are writers who represent Japan and Korea in leprosy literature. The image of their body was wandering in the Asia beyond the boundaries of empire and colonialism. Feature of Hojo Tamio's work is self-contemplation. Han Haun's work is self-alienation. These differences mean that there is a huge and unbridgeable gap between the Empire of Japan and the Colonial Chosun. We can identify this gap through Japanese leprosy novels which show the reality of Chosun's leprosy patient, who had double minority. In the novels, the character of the Korean people is various and typical and ambivalent. As a colonist, Korean people's life was harsh, and their suffering was expressed in leprosy literary works. Eugenics and leprosy literature in Japan and the Colonial Chosun revealed distortion which was the essence of modernity.

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