The Spread of Local Literary Magazines and the Chain of Local Literary Field during the Japanese Colonial Period

Until now, Korea's literary field in the 1920s and 1930s was viewed as being formed mainly in the central literary field centered on Gyeongseong(京城). However, experiments to form a literary field were continuously being carried out in various regions, including Pyongyang and Busan, which had a sense of being a substitute for Gyeongseong-centrism. In the 1920s, local literary magazines with built-in locality were published through the efforts of local intellectuals and writers in cities such as Incheon, Kaesong, and Daegu to form a local knowledge and public forum. New local writers joined forces and attempted to publish literary magazines. This movement continued in the 1930s. In the late 1930s, the publication of 『Sikongseol(,建設)』 published in Joongjin, North Pyongan Province, the northern end of the country, and 『Maek(貊)』 published in Gyeongseong(鏡城), North Hamgyong Province are examples showing that the local literary field had a strong foundation. This paper is a theoretical review that depicts the overall pattern of the spread and chain of local literary magazines that arose in the 1920s and 1930s. Through this, in the study of Korean literary history, we should seek to reconstruct the literary field called regional literature in an antagonistic relationship with the central literary world.