At the beginning of the book
Opening Remarks: Gyeongseong Modernism and the Colonial Condition

Chapter 1: The Colonial City of Gyeongseong and the Foundations of Modernism

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The Age of Imperialism: The Crisis of Representation
2.
The specificity and constraints of Korean literature
3.
Drawing a Map of Modernist Literature
4.
A contrapuntal reading of the dual city of Gyeongseong

Chapter 2: Re-creating Gyeongseong by Japanese in Joseon: Imaginary Geography and the Dual City

1.
The mental geography and ambivalence of Japanese people in Joseon
2.
The Colonizer's Spatial Imagination Seen Through a Pilgrimage to Namchon
3.
Bukchon Adventure and Fictional Spatialization
4.
The two faces of Gyeongseong, the dual city

Chapter 3: Gyeongseong's Literary Map: Taboo, Expansion, and Reproduction

1.
Taboo Space and the Narrative of Namchon
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Expansion of Daegyeongseong and rezoning of urban space
3.
The Aquarium of Love and the Narrative of Urban Desire
4.
Modernism in Gyeongseong as depicted by Chae Man-sik

Chapter 4: Hybrid Ecriture and Hierarchical Language

1.
East Asian Transformations of "Stream of Consciousness" Narratives
2.
Linguistic Hybridity and the Space of Power
3.
The vicarious supplementary structure of hybrid écriture
4.
Urban sensibility and linguistic sense

Chapter 5: Negotiation of Genre, Image, and Sense

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The Dynamics of Empire and Colony: A Map of the Shifting Senses
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Gyeongseong's classical reproduction and modern visuality
3.
Image and Text: Newspaper Illustrations and Modernism in Chinese
4.
Expansion of sound and variation of sense

Closing Remarks: Gyeongseong Modernism in World Literature
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References

About 2,500 works by domestic authors and 130 Japanese texts
Extracted and analyzed colonial city Gyeongseong and Gyeongseong modernism

This book examines how modernism was formed and transformed within the specific context of the colonial city of Gyeongseong, focusing on numerous cases and discussions that reveal three layers: space, language, and sense.
To this end, we extracted neighborhood names and key spatial indicators from approximately 2,500 novels and essays set in Gyeongseong in the 1930s and compared and analyzed them with actual maps of the time.
Through this, we aimed to understand not only the distribution and aspects of visually reproduced space, but also literary tendencies that are concentrated in specific areas.
In addition, we collected about 130 Japanese texts written by Japanese writers who lived in Gyeongseong and compared and analyzed them with the works of Korean writers.
Beyond simply theoretically analyzing literary works, by drawing a literary map centered on Gyeongseong, we were able to view the dual city of Gyeongseong in a three-dimensional way.

This book is divided into five chapters.
Chapter 1 focuses on the process by which modernism was formed, going beyond the simple acceptance of Western literary theory and undergoing unique transformations and constraints within imperialist power relations and colonial conditions.
Chapter 2 follows the gaze of Japanese writers who recreated Gyeongseong as a "second home" and a "space of ambivalence," examining how the colonial city was shaped within a dualistic mental geography.
Chapter 3 shifts the focus to the narratives of Korean writers and delves into how Gyeongseong was spatialized literaryally.
Gyeongseong is not simply an administrative center for the management and control of imperialist power, but a stage where everyday life and literary imagination intersect.
In particular, Namchon functions as a taboo space and a place of encounter with others, forming a unique network of meanings within literary representation.

Chapter 4 focuses on issues of language and narrative technique.
The Western technique of stream of consciousness was transformed into long-distance sentences, disjointed structures, and fragmented inner psychology, and Japanese speech in particular revealed its cracks while simultaneously concealing them through indirect presentation or translation.
Gyeongseong's literature formed a 'hybrid écriture' where Korean and Japanese intersected, and this was closely intertwined with issues of translation, dieglossia, proper nouns, and place names.

Chapter 5 shows that modernism unfolded beyond formal experiments within texts, crossing genres and sensibilities.
Literature explored new aesthetic possibilities by being closely intertwined with contemporary media and art forms such as newspapers and magazines, illustrations and advertising, music and theatre.
In other words, modernism worked in a way that expanded the reader's senses by actively accepting visual images and auditory sounds, rather than remaining solely within the text.
In this respect, rigid modernism should not be limited to mere 'literature', but should be understood as a multi-layered phenomenon in which genres, media, and senses interact.