오키나와에 대한 반식민주의로서 경계의 문학: 메도루마의 문학을 중심으로

Abstract

I inspected only Medoruma’s literature world of which has been introduced and translated into Korean until now. As I analyzed, Medoruma’s literature has been fundamentally rooted on both Okinawa’s war and the reality of postwar. Meanwhile, it has recognizably established unique Medoruma’s literature world. Above all, his literature has not only practiced itself the politics of memory and fight against Okinawa’s war, but also has realized the politics of liberty for anti-colonialism in terms of literary imagination to overcome both neo-militarism and neo-imperialism facing on Okinawa. We can clearly understand what his literary practice emerges his political desire which is not concentrated on ‘self-government’ but ‘independence’ from Japan. Regarding this, it is necessary to read his literature in terms of ‘frontier literature’ to program and practice anti-colonialism. By the way this concept of frontier is not a zone of which is combined with something bits and bobs as post-politics, post-history, and post-identity. This frontier makes a point in dispute to being confronted by sharp international political circumstances of eastern Asia on the edge of emperors (China/Japan/USA). Therefore, there is the politics of liberty as Okinawa’s anti-colonialism amid these arguments. Okinawa as one of significant frontiers makes a crack of the dichotomy, ‘emperor=centre/ colonized=outside’ so called geopolitics of colonialism, forced by emperors around world. What Okinawa’s reality with frontier’s feature can implosive such a long harden dichotomy frame. Medoruma’s literature recognizably emerges the feature of frontier. He is establishing so called ‘Medoruma Realism’ to be rooted on Okinawa’s ‘the marvelous reality’.