재일작가의 이중의 마이너리티 서사 연구

Abstract

Korean-Japanese literature started to be noticed in the late 1960s; it has become a part of Japanese literary history and has been mentioned in Japanese literary circles since the 1980s. In this process, a dozen writers who maintained the flow of Korean-Japanese literature have won prestigious literary awards in Japanese literary circles, leaving marks on literary history. This made them parts of Japanese literary circle, but the others expelled from it, and, as a result, in turn oversimplified the potentials of Korean-Japanese literature. In this study, the narratives that have been unnoticed in Korean-Japanese literary history were analyzed from the perspective of “double minorities.” These double-minority narratives show that Korean-Japanese writers have been identified as a double minority (first by their nation or ethnic group as a Korean-Japanese [Zainichi], and second as another minority due to the hierarchy within Korean-Japanese literary circles). In this regard, this study focused on interpreting the possibility of embracing and, at the same time, transforming the historicity, that is, the ethnic and nation-centric meaning of Korean-Japanese narratives in double-minority narratives.