재일동포문학의 남북갈등과 화해 -이회성, 양석일의 소설 다시 읽기

Abstract

Most of studies dealing with the ideological conflicts in Korean-Japanese literature have been obsessed with teleological reading that tries to be considered theirs work as a reflect and a metaphor of the division system of Korean peninsula. It is an obvious fallacy to substitute equivalence for similarity. Accordingly this paper would suggest that see Korean-Japanese literature as its real being to win free from its deductive reading. This article stands in terms of the following perspective that would not be merely the metaphor and representation of the civil conflict but the duplicity and independence of the Division system. The medium-length story “Something the dead would have been left”(죽은 자가 남긴 것, 1972) written by Lee Hoe-Seong, 67th Akutagawa Award winner dealt with surrounding the funeral of his father fall into a deadlock is mainly focusing on a discord between two brothers: younger brother is the member of Jochongnyeon(the pro-Pyeongyang federation of Korean residents in Japan) and his elder brother is the part of Mindan(the pro-Seoul Federation of Korean Residents in Japan). Their the late father who had been patriarchal and ignorant would leave intangible asset to his offsprings and compatriots that have a heart-to-heart talk and unreserved interchange regardless of ideological confrontation, as the above story showed us. Yang Suk-il’s short story “memorial service”(제사, 1981) can be said an excellent work that ‘I’, protagonist and observer attended at the memorial day of a relatives and witnessed to making a violent antagonism between the left and the right bloc. Then Ms. Park who tired of these contentions upbraids for their ideological confron- tation, adhering to firm stand that both sides are wrong and hardly helpful to improve relations. It is described as ridiculous happening and meaningless strife to intensify the ideological conflicts in the text. And Yang’s novel Bet on the night(밤을 걸고, 1994) could be said picaresque story that composed of two parts and 13 chapters. Its whole synopsis can be summarized such the story as Korean- Japanese’s hard life to dig scrap metal in the old site of Osaka arsenal. That way, the writer Yang gives a vivid description of impartial Korean residents in Japan as diaspora who don't really belong to any side and criticizes the Federation of Korean Residents in Japan and the pro-North Korean residents' league in Japan that have engaged in opposition so often. On this wise, Korean-Japanese Literature to describe ideological conflict and conciliation in their society shows you such a blank area as that festival․memorial service․funeral have nothing to do with nationalism and political belief, presenting new possibilities to reconciliation between both sides.