국어와 일본어의 틈새, 재일 한인 문학의자리 - 『漢陽』, 『三千里』, 『靑丘』의 이중 언어 관련 논의를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The Japanese language of Korean-Japanese writers are constantly interfered with the Korean language(Choseon language). During the colonial period, Kim Saryang and Jang Hyuckjoo could work in the literary world of Japan on the basis of the understanding that Japanese is the standard language in Asia. However, it greatly aroused a sense of linguistic incongruity to express something Korean in Japanese because it is difficult to describe exactly something Korean in Japanese and it is easy to be affected by Japanese logic. Japanese, which was firmly placed as the national language or the standard language during the colonial period, was replaced by the Korean language after the independence of Korea. Japanese was degraded as the invader's language or the imperialist's language that supported the distorted colonial history of the past and the Choseon language enhanced its status as the Korean national language. Korean-Japanese writers still wrote their works in Japanese. Because the Korean language did not form the base of abstractive thought and it was recognized as if it was a foreign language, they could not help choosing Japanese. In reality, most of them were educated in Japanese, which was considered as the national language. And thus, even though they could use the Korean language, most of them needed the procedure of translation into Japanese. The mainstream of Korean-Japanese literature was written in Japanese, and in this case, the literature written in Japanese inevitably created the tension with the Korean language (the Choseon language) as the national language that recovered its purity. Moreover, Korean-Japanese writers's linguistic agony could not help deepening because of the special situation that the mother tongue and the national language were separated. It may be the reason why the creation in Japanese has been endlessly disputed since the independence of Korea. Also the constant criticism on the writings in Japanese has acted as the pressure that the logic for the creation in Japanese should be established. Decolonial appropriation, which intended to inform the Japanese reader of the expression of something Choseon in the Japanese language or the unreasonableness in the course of colonialization, appeared in this process. As we can see in the example of Kim Seokbum, so is the attitude that considers the relationship between the Korean-Japanese writers and the Japanese language as the strained conflicting relation and recognizes it as the important literary quality. In this case, the tension and conflict between the Korean language (the Choseon language) and the Japanese language becomes the essential condition for the existence of the Korean-Japanese literature. That is, the Korean-Japanese literature exists between the Korean language and the Japanese language and the Korean (Choseon) language creates constantly the tension in their Japanese. This linguistic relation is also the major point where the greatest characteristics and peculiar creativity of Korean-Japanese literature appear.