지배의 역설・광기의 식민지 －나카시마 아쓰시 「순사가 있는 풍경」에서의 제국・천황・타자－

Abstract

The picture of Korea in the colonial period drawn by Nakajima Atsushi in his 'Junsa no iru fukei' is not just an embodiment of his own experience of Korea, or the harsh reality of a colony overflowing with discrimination at the hands of the Japanese. Rather, as is shown by analyzing the setting of a 'Korean policeman' and '1923', it at once preserves the structure of discrimination, while presenting the assimilationism that function together with this. Again, it presents the ambivalence surrounding Imperial Japan's discrimination which, while rejecting discrimination, could not in fact cease discriminating. As we see from scenes where Koreans are arrested and oppressed by Koreans, a feature shared by the characters 'Cho Kyo Young' and 'Kim Dong Ryen' in the story, the upshot of this is that we find inscribed in the narrative the process whereby the relations of domination in the colony are replaced by divisions among the colonized, and in the end this stimulates a sense of their own ethnicity, leading to the breakdown of assimilationism itself. At this point it is not difficult to imagine the repugnance that Nakajima himself felt fot assimilationism.