Abstract

This article views travels in the Western world during the colonial period from the standpoint of the actual travel experiences, ‘the Western world’ represented and created from that experiences, and self-image or identity stimultaneously constructed in the representation process. Travels in the Western world during the colonial period can be divided into 1)in the early 1920s, a full-length of serial travels focused in the actual ‘journey’ of travellers or students studying abroad, 2)after the mid-1920s, travels of ‘experiences of studying under adversity’ in the United States, publishied serially in newspapers and magazines, 3)after the late 1920s, travels specialized in ‘cultural experiences’ of individuals in one paticular area, 4)a full-leanth of serial travels written by authors who had been dispatched to the political events in the U.S. or Russia, etc., published in some newspapers, such as the Dong-A Ilbo and the Chosun Ilbo. The discussion of this article is mainly on the third as above, ‘after the late 1920s, travels specialized in ‘cultural experiences’ of individuals in one paticular area.’In the process of analyzing, the travel writing, in the light of ‘a particular method of representation construction’, under condition of ‘the writing of individuals’ empirical experiences,’ is internally analyzed. This method is that 1)the form of relations between space(place) and subject, 2)an awareness of time consisted of the travel writing’s narrative, 3)relations between the writing form and media, presented from these factors, and concluding all of these, 4)how the subjects of travels accordance with the subject image in the modern period in Korea. From this process, it discovered that in this kind of travels, the Western world is described with a focus on the special experiences of individuals, with ethnographical approach on the alien area of the Western, or on some experiences of festivals within the Western’s daily life and culture. Then, by seperating from the belonging community, an individual is formed and he or she possesses an episteme of consumer-individual. This article is about 1)the division of the Western appropriating selectively as the object of certain experiences of individuals 2)time narrative of contemporaneity, different from the historical sense of time, 3)the relations between discriptive writing and the knowledge production system of mass communication.