디지털 인문학 기반 개화기 번역가 게일의 탈식민화 관점 연구

A Digital Humanities Based Study of James Scarth Gale’s Decolonization: His Discourse on Japan

This article argues James Scarth Gale (1863-1937)’s decolonizing position based on an analysis of the personally built Gale Paper search engine. The search engine now consists of 12 documents, written by Gale or someone else, but preserved by Gale. This study systemically refutes the previous literature that evaluated Gale as pro-Japanese by providing the indisputable evidence of Gale’s negative appraisals of Japan during the Japanese occupation. The contextual analysis reveals the salient discourses of Japanese police and soldiers as the agents of killing and abusing Koreans, the Japanese court rendering an unjust verdict, evil Japanese militarism, distrustful Japan, and a hope for Japan to depart from an unjust way. All this evidence supports Gale’s decolonizing position.