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A Study on Subalternity and Representation in Pachinko

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2025, 18(1), pp.129~150
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2025.18.1.129
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 7, 2025
  • Accepted : April 15, 2025
  • Published : April 30, 2025

Jaeeun Lee 1

1한국외국어대학교 일본연구소

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ABSTRACT

This study examines the implications of ‘becoming Korean’ for Solomon, a third-generation Korean diaspora in Japan, based on the narrative structure and the visual elements—tone and mise-en-scène—depicted in Season 1 of Pachinko. The drama explores Solomon’s experience of ethnic identity confusion and the process of subject formation within the broader dynamics of planetary capitalism. Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s theory of internalization of colonial inferiority and Gayatri Spivak’s analysis of the structural silence of the subaltern, this study argues for the possibility of Solomon’s emergence as an ethical native informant, overcoming the internalization of colonial inferiority imposed by assimilation into Japanese society. This process, where the visual text of Pachinko engages with postcolonial theory, reveals that the becoming Korean of the third-generation Korean diaspora in Japan is not a simple return to bloodline identity, but rather a process of forming subjectivity through an ethical responsiveness to historical responsibility within the context of subalternity.

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