@article{ART002539927},
author={KyoungYeon Moon},
title={Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II},
journal={DONAM OHMUNHAK},
issn={1229-2117},
year={2019},
volume={36},
pages={292-318},
doi={10.17056/donam.2019.36..291}
TY - JOUR
AU - KyoungYeon Moon
TI - Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II
JO - DONAM OHMUNHAK
PY - 2019
VL - 36
IS - null
PB - The Donam Language & Literature
SP - 292
EP - 318
SN - 1229-2117
AB - This paper aims to focus on and trace the production and stage performance of paper theatre (J. kamishibai) during the occupation of Korea by Japanese empire and shed light on its real effects. As the World War II drew to a close, the role of paper theatre as a cultural propaganda tool was reinforced, which made the Japanese GovernmentGeneral take more careful and closer control over paper theatre. This, in turn, serves as an evidence which attests to the status of paper theatre as part of the empire’s ruling strategy. The moving stories of the colonists who were so moved that they willingly made national defense contribution after watching the paper theatre would have made the imperial rulers expect an even stronger impact from the paper theatre.
This paper includes as its empirical data a substantial amount of Korean paper theatre repertoires during late Japanese colonial period, which I have secured as much as possible. In so doing, I was able to determine that messages calling for awareness of the current situation, antiespionage, tax payment, or savings were the recurring themes in both the empire and the colony alike during the wartime, while the “military recruitment” and “everyday use of national language [i.e. Japanese]” were the ones that were particularly underscored in Korean peninsula. “Descriptions” on the back of paper theatre scripts demonstrate the ambivalent position of the paper theatre performers as “the recruited and the recruiter.” The cases of reportage or true storybased paper theatre in Korea are the cases, in which colonists were actively mobilized in imagining the imperial achievement in narratives through the prize competitions for new paper theatre scripts.
KW - paper theatre (kamishibai);cultural rule;propaganda;moving stories;true storybased paper theatre
DO - 10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
ER -
KyoungYeon Moon. (2019). Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II. DONAM OHMUNHAK, 36, 292-318.
KyoungYeon Moon. 2019, "Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II", DONAM OHMUNHAK, vol.36, pp.292-318. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon "Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II" DONAM OHMUNHAK 36 pp.292-318 (2019) : 292.
KyoungYeon Moon. Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II. 2019; 36 292-318. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon. "Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II" DONAM OHMUNHAK 36(2019) : 292-318.doi: 10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon. Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II. DONAM OHMUNHAK, 36, 292-318. doi: 10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon. Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II. DONAM OHMUNHAK. 2019; 36 292-318. doi: 10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon. Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II. 2019; 36 292-318. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
KyoungYeon Moon. "Stage Performance of Paper Theatre during the Late Japanese Colonial Period and the Imperial Event II" DONAM OHMUNHAK 36(2019) : 292-318.doi: 10.17056/donam.2019.36..291
