@article{ART003257439},
author={LEE SEIN},
title={Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)},
journal={International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)},
issn={3092-1627},
year={2025},
volume={20},
number={20},
pages={160-173}
TY - JOUR
AU - LEE SEIN
TI - Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)
JO - International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
PY - 2025
VL - 20
IS - 20
PB - Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
SP - 160
EP - 173
SN - 3092-1627
AB - Zainichi Korean literature has often been perceived as the Other that mirrors the ethical complexities of both Korean and Japanese readers, reinforcing national identities. Within generational studies, Gengetsu’s works have been viewed as unable to transcend Zainichi particularity due to their explicit depictions of violence. However, his collection Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa) foregrounds physical violence to unveil emotional and material forms of universal violence—sympathy and communal consciousness. By distancing himself from both Japan’s institutional order and Korea’s ethnic familial community, Gengetsu’s writing aspires toward literary autonomy beyond nationalism. Focusing on Bad Rumors and Dusk (Yūyami), this study analyzes how violence operates as a narrative strategy for achieving universality and repositioning Zainichi literature within broader literary discourse. In Bad Rumors, the motif of “Bone” replaces emotional sympathy with physical brutality, dismantling the structure of body, family, and nation. In Dusk, “Chika” exposes the coercive nature of sympathy and evokes solidarity and mourning among the marginalized, revealing sympathy itself as a universal form of violence.
KW - Zainichi Korean literature;Gengetsu;Bad Rumors;Dusk;sympathy;violence;mourning
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LEE SEIN. (2025). Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa). International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 20(20), 160-173.
LEE SEIN. 2025, "Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)", International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), vol.20, no.20 pp.160-173.
LEE SEIN "Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 20.20 pp.160-173 (2025) : 160.
LEE SEIN. Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa). 2025; 20(20), 160-173.
LEE SEIN. "Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 20, no.20 (2025) : 160-173.
LEE SEIN. Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa). International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 20(20), 160-173.
LEE SEIN. Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa). International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL). 2025; 20(20) 160-173.
LEE SEIN. Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa). 2025; 20(20), 160-173.
LEE SEIN. "Reconfiguring Violence and Sympathy in Zainichi Korean Literature: Gengetsu’s Bad Rumors (Warui Uwasa)" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 20, no.20 (2025) : 160-173.
