학병소설에 나타난 디아스포라 정체성 연구 1960년대 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis was studied about “the diaspora identity” of the student soldiers novel in 1960s. The diaspora identity is one of the most important features of the student soldiers novel. Because it serves as a basis for revealing the imagination of “Non-nationalistic Decolonization” inherent in the novel. Han Woon-sa, Kim Kwang-sik, and Lee Byeong-ju’s novels reflect the special historical context of the colonial Joseon. In chapter 2, This study discusses Ah Ro-woon written in 1961. Ah Ro-woon express various figuers of Koreans and Japanese who can not be converged to a dichotomy of good and evil. The affection between Korean “Ah Ro-woon” and Japanese “Hideko” shows the question whether the national task of “reconstruction of Joseon” is so great that even individual love can be overthrown. In chapter 3, I will search Kim Kwang-sik’s The Colony written in 1963. The Colony was reflected the autobiographical experience of a writer Kim Kwang-sik who escaped from emergency mobilization of student soldier. Manchuria, which is shaped in novels, is a place to find colonialism through solidarity with other ethnic-people. The Colony does not simply constitute the memory of the past colonial history with the perspective of the Korean people. In chapter 4, I will prove Lee Byeong-ju’s Kwanbu Ferry. Kwanbu Ferry is a narrative against the forgetting of the public memory built after the “Korea-Japan Agreement”, which is called the “1965 System”. The main character establishes an external position to resign from the ideological confrontation after liberation through his internalized “Etrange” or “Stranger” consciousness. In conclusion, the student soldiers novel of the 1960s showed the possibility of overcoming the obsessive anti-Japanese nationalism that the Korean nation’s reconstruction ideology at that time had assumed. Ah Ro-woon, The Colony, and Kwanbu Ferry are showing organic reasons for the historical situation of Korea in the 1960s. These novels that appeared in the 1960s create a point of postcolonial reflection in that the colonial history shows that the past is never over. This possibility could be manifested by the diaspora identity that the generations could have. From this point of view, this study focused on analyzing how the identity of diaspora in 1960s the Korean student soldiers novels represents the imagination of Non-nationalistic Decolonization.