‘조선/한국전쟁’ 혹은 ‘분열/분단’ ― 기억의 승인을 둘러싸고

Abstract

Kim Tal-Su’s full-length novel NihonnoFuyu(Winter in Japan) was serialized in the Japanese Communist Party newspaper Akahata from August18th, 1956until December31st of the same year. Since the middle of its serialization,controversy regarding NihonnoFuyu arose in Akahata. In this paper, taking clues from the controversy surrounding NihonnoFuyu, I have considered the ways in which “literature” and memories related to ethnic identity were reorganized in an environment in which memories of the occupation were being subject to reexamination. In Japanese language literature research until that time, the period between 1945 and 1952 was framed by the word “occupation.”In particular, the word “censorship” garnered attention in a way that was linked to “occupation.” There is no question that surrounding these words was a tendency to accumulate research that aimed to bring evidence of the oppression of the “defeated” by the “victors” into the foreground. In this paper, I have focused not only on censorship as a legitimated apparatus of violence put into effect through legal language, but also on the ways in which, for example, media was categorized into the “Korean”[Chōsen] type and the “Japanese Communist Party” type that came to be the most suppressed, and the ways in which censorship codes developed in relation to the internalization of those codes by self-imposed language restraints within those organizations.