Christopher D. Scott (Asian Languages, Stanford University)
| DATE: | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-2:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies |
Cho Jihyon. "Ikaino: Tsuioku no 1960-nendai." Tokyo: Shinkansha 曺智鉉著『猪飼野 追憶の1960年代』（東京；新幹社、2003) 33頁
As World War II ended and the Cold War began, Korean residents of Japan (and other former colonial subjects)　quickly became personae non grata: they were perceived as threats to national security, public safety, and the objectives of the Allied Occupation (1945-1952) itself. This paper explores the cultural stigmatization of these Resident Koreans as subversive yet emasculated — invisible men, as it were — in the early fiction of Kim Tal-su (1919-1997). The author discusses how racial tensions and gender anxieties both underwrite and complicate Kim's status as the "father" of the genre now known as "Resident Korean literature" (zainichi Chôsenjin bungaku).
Christopher D. Scott is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Japanese literature at Stanford University. He is currently completing a dissertation entitled "Spies, Rapists, Ghosts, and Queers: Misrepresentations of Resident Korean Men in Postwar Japan."
This event is free and open to the public.
