@article{ART002094029},
author={John Whittier TREAT},
title={Im Hwa Before and After Japan},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2015},
volume={8},
number={1},
pages={5-26},
doi={10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5}
TY - JOUR
AU - John Whittier TREAT
TI - Im Hwa Before and After Japan
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2015
VL - 8
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 5
EP - 26
SN - 2092-6081
AB - Im Hwa (林和) — pioneer poet, critic and literary historian as well as reviled collaborator and accused spy—is one of the prominent colonial-period authors whose careers remain controversial because twentieth-century Korean history itself still is. Although a wolbuk (越北) writer whose work languished under erasure until post-Park Chung-Hee democratization in the ROK, critical reading of Im in neither the North nor the South halted entirely after his Pyongyang mass show-trial and execution in 1953. Building on early work by Kim Yun-Sik (金充植) in the ROK, Ōmura Masuo (大村益夫) in Japan, and many younger scholars in the U.S., my contribution within my larger project on pro-Japan Korean intellectuals under Japanese rule, is the history of Im’s reception in postwar Japan, where the legacies of shinnichi/chinil (親日) writers animate their own involved, ongoing anxieties over the unresolved historical consensus of the empire’s record of voluntary and involuntary complicity. I focus on Matsumoto Seichō’s (松本清張, 1962–63) biographical novel of Im, Poet of the North (Kita no shijin, 北の詩人). Instrumental in propagating a far from disinterested portrait of Im that still circulates in Japan fifty years after its publication, Poet of the North is evidence of how one writer’s reputation, already distorted by a lifetime spent initially under imperialism and then Stalinism, continues to be manipulated in Japan amid combined colonial revisionism and Cold War politics.
KW - Im Hwa;Matsumoto Seichō;Japanese empire;collaboration;Poet of the North;Kita no shijin
DO - 10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
ER -
John Whittier TREAT. (2015). Im Hwa Before and After Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 8(1), 5-26.
John Whittier TREAT. 2015, "Im Hwa Before and After Japan", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.8, no.1 pp.5-26. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT "Im Hwa Before and After Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8.1 pp.5-26 (2015) : 5.
John Whittier TREAT. Im Hwa Before and After Japan. 2015; 8(1), 5-26. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT. "Im Hwa Before and After Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8, no.1 (2015) : 5-26.doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT. Im Hwa Before and After Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 8(1), 5-26. doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT. Im Hwa Before and After Japan. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2015; 8(1) 5-26. doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT. Im Hwa Before and After Japan. 2015; 8(1), 5-26. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
John Whittier TREAT. "Im Hwa Before and After Japan" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 8, no.1 (2015) : 5-26.doi: 10.22901/trans.2015.8.1.5
