Comparison of Perceptions on ‘Postwar’ Between the History of Korean Literature and the History of Japanese Literature

Cho，Jung-Min

doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.52..223

This paper comparatively considered how Korea and Japan address the concept of ‘postwar’ in descriptions of their literary history. In Japan, ‘postwar’ refers to the period after World War II (Asia-Pacific War). This word implies a variety of contexts such as collapse, poverty, confusion, calendar reform, reconstruction and restoration as well as a series of historical events such as war, war defeat, and American occupation; and so it has been treated in Japanese society a significant period. In the history of Korean literature, it is after national liberation that the word ‘postwar’ appeared; however, it has usually indicated ‘the period after the Korean War.’ The question is that although the term of postwar refers to periods after different wars, Koreans used the term of postwar also in the same way as Japan, and their concept of postwar overlaps with the concept of prewar or postwar used in Japan, and accordingly, side effects are produced that fail to grasp properly the independent characteristics and significance of the Korean War. In conclusion, the Korean War brought about contrasting effects on the history of Korean and Japanese literature. While the Korean War meant a start after the war in Korean literature, it became a turning point marking the end of postwar in Japanese literature. Such different perceptions on postwar also have major implications in that perceptions represent postwar discourses in today’s Korea and Japan.

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