재일(在日) 한인 소설 연구 - 김학영과 이양지의 소설을 중심으로

The Study on the Novel of Korean-Japanese; Focus on the Novels by Kim Hak-Yung and Lee Yang-Ji

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper was written on purpose to analyze how the psychopathology which was shown on Kim, Hak-Yeong&quot;s The Frozen Mouth and Lee, Yang-Ji&quot;s The Butterfly Ballad was related to the identity conflict which a second-generation Korean-Japanese suffered.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Kim, Hak-Yeong created a second-generation Korean-Japanese who was a stammerer as a hero in The Frozen Mouth; the stammer is the handicap, that is, a kind of conversion which was made by the trauma, “Josenjing” which is the contemptuous word about Korean-Japanese. That makes the hero plummet into depression, and feel the impulse to kill himself. The hero comes at a true knowledge of the cruelty of the time when Japan put Korea under its colonial rule and the discrimination which Japanese make to Korean-Japanese through reading books. So his surge of anger and the feeling of helplessness that he can do nothing about the contempt and the discrimination which Japanese make to Korean make him become a stammerer, a melancholia, and feel the impulse to kill himself.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Lee, Yang-Ji described the young woman who suffered from divorce suit between her parents and the identity conflict that she is “Josenjing” in The Butterfly Ballad. The heroine suffers from a psychopathic disease, so she tries to escape from reality through leaving home and a illicit relationship with a married man, and she suffer from not only the persecution mania that she is killed by Japanese but also the feeling of impulse to kill Japanese. After she escape from Japan, she gets a new trouble because her sense of shame that she cannot speak Korean well and her pride that she is a Korean-Japanese are pitted against each other. But her private grief which she experienced in the family and her racial anger which she suffered as a Korean-Japanese are all healed up through the exorcism dance. She acquires her identity firmly and experiences the sublimation and catharsis through the racial arts like gayageum, pansori, and exorcism dance.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The two abovementioned novels all show the hero or heroine who suffers from the identity conflict of second-generation Korean-Japanese, finally gets psychopathic disease, but there is a gap between the two. Kim, Hak-Yeong described the hero who could not overcome his obstacles like stammer, melancholia, and feeling of impulse to kill himself. On the other hand, Lee, Yang-Ji described the heroine who not only disentangled her problem through sublimating her conflict in racial art but also acquired her identity.