1950년대의 재일조선인 표상 - 야스모토 스에코 『니안짱(にあんちゃん)』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study analyzed representation of Korean residents in the 1950s when the national identity of postwar Japan began to form. Especially it analyzed the process of how this diary had become a best seller in the reorganization of the educational world taking place in the late 1950s, the so-called enactment of the government guidelines for teaching (resurrection of the prewar 'moral' education), focusing on "Nianjang", a diary of the girl who was a Korean resident in Japan, which has been being consumed as a story representing warm 'heart'(brotherly affection, family affection, etc.) even to this day, after it became a best seller in 1959. Besides, the book reports of this diary that won prizes in the contemporary book report competition show that this diary written by a Korean girl who had lived in Japan is not stressed from a viewpoint of 'Korean resident in Japan' but is collected and consumed as a story of the 'hard working' family. In addition, the educational device called a book report indicated that it also functioned as the datum point that eventually excluded numerous Korean residents in Japan discrepant from such representation, presenting Yasmoto family as the exemplary Korean residents in Japan of that time.