Exploring the Complexity of “Korean” Lives Beyond National History: Recent English-Language Studies of the Korean Colonial Experience, 1999~2019: A Brief Examination
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This essay examines the historiography of English language scholarship of the past two decades (1999~2019) on Korean studies of the colonial period (1910~1945) published in the US. With the diversification of scholarly agents and increasing interest in “Korea” itself in the field in recent decades, English-language scholarship has increasingly problematized the heuristic categories of “colonial modernity,” “collaboration” and “national history” that have long permeated studies of Korean history in earlier generations and within Korea-based scholarship. Beginning with a reexamination of early canonical works including Carter J. Eckert’s Offspring of Empire (1992) and Michael Robinson and Shin Gi-Wook’s Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999) along with their common critiques, I discuss how some subsequent English-language studies of the colonial period have attempted to provide a critical examination of such categorizations, while remaining by and large within the existing tropes of their generation. I argue that more recent scholarship has been moving towards three main trends that will continue to inform students and scholars of the field in the future: differentiation, which questions and deconstructs readily assumed notions of “nation”, “people” and ethnicity, uncovering antinomies, which accepts self-contradictions within existing categorizations that have been assumed to be mutually exclusive (such as “collaboration” and “nationalism”), and transnational scope, which recognizes the history of colonialism as transcending national boundaries.
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This essay examines the historiography of English language scholarship of the past two decades (1999~2019) on Korean studies of the colonial period (1910~1945) published in the US. With the diversification of scholarly agents and increasing interest in “Korea” itself in the field in recent decades, English-language scholarship has increasingly problematized the heuristic categories of “colonial modernity,” “collaboration” and “national history” that have long permeated studies of Korean history in earlier generations and within Korea-based scholarship. Beginning with a reexamination of early canonical works including Carter J. Eckert’s Offspring of Empire (1992) and Michael Robinson and Shin Gi-Wook’s Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999) along with their common critiques, I discuss how some subsequent English-language studies of the colonial period have attempted to provide a critical examination of such categorizations, while remaining by and large within the existing tropes of their generation. I argue that more recent scholarship has been moving towards three main trends that will continue to inform students and scholars of the field in the future: differentiation, which questions and deconstructs readily assumed notions of “nation”, “people” and ethnicity, uncovering antinomies, which accepts self-contradictions within existing categorizations that have been assumed to be mutually exclusive (such as “collaboration” and “nationalism”), and transnational scope, which recognizes the history of colonialism as transcending national boundaries.
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