재일한인의 생활사 이야기와 서사문학

The stories of the Korean-Japanese's daily experiences and the Narratives.

I discussed the stories of the Korean-Japanese's daily experiences from the point of view of the motivation and process of the immigration into Japan, living and housing, mother country's division and coping with it, racism and resistance, entering school and education, the consciousness of forgetting hometown, funeral and memorial service, marriage and rite, and the problem of nationality etc. A lot of meanings implied in the narratives based on the various interests like these can be read on the high level. From this point of view, the aspects of narrative forms written by the 2nd generation writers of the Korean-Japanese are divided into five ones. First, Heerakwon by Won Su-il, of which the theme is Korea Town rooted in Japan, focuses on the wisdom and the role of living together feeling the wound of Korean-Japanese with the motherlike mind. Second, I discussed the meaning of "generation gap and the settlement of its distance" on Out of the Fence by Park Jung-ho. In this work the conflicts around the marriage may be thought a serious problem of the Korean people beyond a family's matter. Third, Three Sisters of Kim Chang saeng describes the feelings of the sisters who met on the memorial service day for their parents who died in foreign land cherishing the nostalgia for the hometown. The thematic meaning of the work is the awakening of the moment that the wish of missing hometown is recognized as the loss of hometown and the pain caused by it. Fourth, in Wanderings of Kim Moon-sun we meet a vagabond who has no home. There is no safety life for the man who cannot live in the home. The wandering life of Kim Moon-sun is his whole life as we can see in the tit Ie itself. At the same time the space extends to everywhere in Japan. Fifth, in My Icaino, which is biographical essays of Kim Chang-saeng, the consciousness of nationality and the wish for the unity of Korea are penetrated here and there. Especially "the street of politics" and "the unity of mother country is from Icaino" describe them summarily. From the various materials related to 'the stories of everyday experiences of the Korean-Japanese and the narratives.' I am looking forward to find not only complaint and resentment, self-scorn and regret, and the voice worrying about the descendants who have been oblivious of our language and culture, but also the voices of our own punishment and resolution for the past we did not cope with.