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As minority literature the Korean Residents in Japan literature-based on A Foreign Body of Hyonyeol.

  • 日本硏究
  • 2012, (33), pp.219-237
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Published : August 20, 2012

HWANG Bongmo 1

1한국외국어대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article considers the Korean Residents literature mainly [A Foreign Body] of Hyonyeol. Hyonyeol (1963-)is Korean writer , living in Japan and currently he is the most active writer in Japan. When The Shade House received the Akutagawa prize in 2000, he begun working the literary world in earnest in Japan. After that he investigated absurdity which was minority group of the Korean residents society through some of the works and has gazed steadily at the fundamental evil Hyonyeol throws an image on a work as the Korean residents in Japan and grasps existence of a human successfully ,so it can be said that his work get universality. He is known as a writer that the universal aspects of humans rather than the special circumstances of Koreans living in Japan, though he himself is one. This article considers mainly [A Foreign Body] of his works and the Korean residents in Japan. Almost all the Korean Residents Literature mainly treat Japanese society distinction of the Korean residents in Japan whereas Hyonyeol's A Foreign body treats new discord which are Japanese, generation Korean-Japanese, a first generation Korean-Japanese, a second generation Korean-Japanese and Old comer and New Comer. The writer said that the feeling of irritation exist between Japanese and the Korean residents in Japan moreover each group has the feeling of irritation. This article examines how to get and receive like the discord in a person of [A Foreign Body]. As we demonstrated. The korean residents in Japan have a problem with Japanese, each a generation and discord of old comer and new comer.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.