朝鮮における女性植民者二世: 京城第一公立高等女学校生の経験

Abstract

In this paper, the author focuses on the colonial experiences of women who were brought up as a second generation of Japanese colonizers in Korea under the Japanese colonial administration in order to clarify what the colony was for them. The author considers the problem of the colonialism in terms of experiences of Japanese female colonizers who were born and lived there at the colonial period. This problem is closely related to the consideration of culture that surrounded them. Focusing on the narrative of informants, the following two issues on the women's colonial experiences are made clear in this paper: The first issue refers to a problem: how colonialism was mentally internalized. In fact, most of them had a sense of their own superiority and no doubt about their status as colonizers. Their way of thinking and behavior was determined by such historical factors as (1) the segregated housing, (2) the existence of Korean domestic servants, (3) contempt of Korean culture, manners and customs, (4) forced use of Japanese language, (5) the order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones. As a background, the accomplished violence of Japanese colonial rule over Korea played a major role in making the rule invisible. The second issue refers to a problem: how the internalized colonialism began to waver and came to its dissolution or overcoming. In this paper, the modification of internalized colonialism is classified into the following six types: (1) some women found their way to resurgence, based upon complete self- negation, (2) some led a life full of internal conflicts, (3) some referred the colonial experience to the problem of social structure from an enhanced interest in politics, (4) some intuitively reflected on their own colonial experiences, (5) some had ambivalent feelings towards them but went not so far as to critically recognize themselves as colonizers, (6) some recollected their own colonial experiences as nostalgic memory. Under this historical constellation, some of the second- generation female Japanese colonizers who present self- reflective narrative on their own colonial experiences could play a significant role as effective objection to Japanese state and society that have not critically enough reflected on their own past of colonial rule over Korea. The author of this paper sets a hope on the existence of the second- generation female Japanese colonizers from the type (1) through (3).