관동대지진, 타자를 향한 시선

Abstract

In this paper, I tried to comparatively analyze the expression of the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake from the perspective of others through Japanese and Korean works. The subjects of analysis are Japanese media and literary works published in 1923, Korea’s Tokyo Earthquake Period (Lee Ki-young) and After the Earthquake (Jung Woo-heon). Through the analysis, I tried to consider the psychology of Koreans, the Japanese, and the human psychology under a crisis such as an earthquake. The massacre at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake was an eruption of a sense of discrimination and exclusion due to symbiosis with the ruling race of Koreans during the Japanese colonial period. And a representative word that is considered to be an expression of that sense of discrimination can be said to be a discriminatory term called a distrustful person. In this study, by examining the novels and records about a series of earthquakes mentioned in the reporting environment of censorship, it was possible to examine the situation of Japan and colonial Joseon, the correlation with the genocide of Koreans, and the deep-rooted Korean and Japanese image of the others.