김석범 문학과 경계인의 정체성 -초기 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

Kim Seok Bum is classified as a first generation Jainichi writer(在日朝鮮人作家, Korean writer who lives in Japan and doesn't have Korean nationality or that of Japan). The problem of national identity reveals a critical perspective for the research of jainichi writers including Kim Seok Bum. This essay, focusing on Kim's early works scrutinizes characteristics of national identity of Jainichi writers. The national identity of Jainichi writers in Kim's works is that of a marginal man. He shows that kind of identity through nihilism to the historical situation and the detachment between mother tongue and literary language. we can find this fact through an espionage agent in “Death of a Crow”(カラスの死) and a structure of crossing dream and reality in “Story of Falsehood Dream”(虛夢譚) Kim's early works bring out the value and meaning of national identity which is not reverted to nationalism or racilaism. In this sense, His literary works function as a passageway to World literature beyond the limit of national literature.