이양지 소설에 나타난 경계인 양상 연구 - <나비타령>과 <유희>를 중심으로

Abstract

During the Japanese colonial period, many Koreans emigrated to Japan, Russia, Manchuria, China. Their emigration resulted from periodical condition of colonial rule such as drafting, economic burden, ideology. This kind of unwanted emigration produced huge Diaspora and it has been continued today. Lee Yang-ji, who is second generation of Korean residents in Japan, also treat the matter of Diaspora in her novel. Lee Yang-ji's experience to live in Japan with Japanese Nationality but have internalized Korean conscious represents the Korean residents in Japan as a marginal man. Firstly, Butterfly Taryung treat a process of Iko's return to Korea after she quit her job of Hwapung-inn. Iko, who is the second generation of Korean residents in Japan, get the Japanese nationality by being naturalized but having trouble because she is Korean regardless of nationality. Frightened by not the physical violence but the invisible violence of eyes, she try censoring herself. Iko's this kind of behavior represents Japanese aspect about Korean residents in Japan. It is severe fear for second generation of Korean residents in Japan who didn't experience a direct colonial rule or deportation to suffer a silent violence, exclusion and alienation. But that doesn't mean Korea, their mother country, welcome them. Yuhee is written by her old sister's perspective recalling Yuhee who went back to Japan when one semester left to graduate. Her confession that she'd like to help Yuhee starts from an assumption she has already identity as a Korean and the fluent Korean speaking is a standard dividing the subject and other. In the national state, language is being a criteria to distinguish the subject and the other, which is mean a man who can't speak Korean fluently can be a stranger. Also what Yuhee's old sister and aunt says all of the matters is up to Yuhee makes the status of Korean residents in Japan getting narrow and isolated by interpreting the matter of Korean residents in Japan as the matter of individual. The Korean residents in Japan represented in Butterfly Taryung and Yuhee were the figure of a marginal man who was included neither Korea and Japan. The Korean residents with Japan nationality should stand silent violence because they aren't Japanese while they have to be excluded because of being unskilled Korean even in the Koreans. It was the matter of Iko and Yuhee in her novel and also the matter of reality writer was facing. Life as a marginal man represented in her novel reflects writer's self-consciousness as a marginal man.