LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Akutagawa Prize, Kims, Japanese Language
Lecture 9, 04.20.2018
Korean Writers in Imperial Japan
● Collaborating with Japan? Good or bad
● Resistance, no access to the writings?
● Orientalism (Said)
○ 1970s: criticized the way scholars represented the East
○ Childish, in need of guidance
○ Always one step behind the west
○ Nation was not yet fit to rule itself
● Kim Sa-ryang
○ From a middle-class Christian family in Pyongyang
○ Educated in Japanese, makes his literary debut in Japanese
○ Nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in literature (1940)
○ Eventually leaves Japan in 1941
○ Never really felt at home because he was forced to go to Japanese schools because they
were considered superior to Korean education
○ Killed himself
○ Was talented
○ Kis Ito the Light eodies the peuliar aiae of Koreas
○ The topi of Ki Sarags Ito the Light is the ethi psholog of the Korea
people
○ I Ki there is a strog fiatio o the arious partiularities of ad the fate fo the
Korea people [...] Ki Sarags orks are er lose to the leel of the Japaese. If I
were to compare the average in Korean and Manchurian literature, I would say that the
forer is just oe da ore gro up.
○ The idea that he should e gettig the prize just eause hes Korea
● Assimilation policies
● 1938: Naisen Ittai policy: Japan and Korea as one body
● Japanese language only education
● Opening of the Imperial army to Korean volunteers
● Attempts to introduce Shinto in the peninsula
● Measures to have Koreans take up Japanese patronyms
● Comparable to the whites/Native Americans
● Rejects the Korean inside him, but still is conscious of his Korean identity?
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Document Summary
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