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@article{ART001510280},
author={yonggyong chang},
title={Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national},
journal={The Review of Korean History},
issn={1225-133X},
year={2010},
number={100},
pages={179-217}

TY - JOUR
AU - yonggyong chang
TI - Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national
JO - The Review of Korean History
PY - 2010
VL - null
IS - 100
PB - The Historical Society Of Korea
SP - 179
EP - 217
SN - 1225-133X
AB - This article examines Im Hwa’s view on language and his response towards the Japanese colonial assimilation policies, to show how the socialist Im Hwa came to recognize the nation and the changes with which he came to see the national. From the mid to the end of 1930s, Im Hwa saw language as well as those related to the nation merely as the expressive formalities of the content or as the mode of expressing thoughts and emotions. As socialist, he acquired such view through Stalin’s theory on national policies and the theory of linguistic function that criticised national languages. By uniting these two, Im Hwa thought he could ‘comprehend’ the nation without having to become nationalist. In the 1930s, Im Hwa responded to nationalism by conceptualizing nation as formality and language as function. However, after 1939, the problems that arose were not about differences with nationalism, but one of direct confrontation with imperialism that saw the formal and the functional particulars itself as the purpose. It could be said that it was only then that Im Hwa became directly involved with the problems of the nation. The Korean particulars or the apology of the Korean language as the accurate mode of expression was articulated through the national front. During this process, Im Hwa seems to have revised his view of the nation as formality and the language as function. His expression of ‘the awareness of nation as spirit and the return of terminology to mother tongue as the renaissance,’ uttered after the liberation, is one of the representative examples of the changes taken place as result. The territorialization of the general theories on nation and the national was accomplished through self – problematization. In the post-liberation period, the foremost plan for Im Hwa was the theory of national literature. For him, at this time, the nation possessed duality as the concept of historical community and as the particularity newly discovered through resistance towards the Japanese assimilation policies. For this reason, it would be more accurate to see Im Hwa’s theory of the national literature, not as the literary version of the theory of bourgeois democratic revolution of the Korean communist party, but as the culmination of the literary experiences forged under the Japanese colonization. To Im Hwa, the national was not logical, but newly found through anti –imperialistic experiences. Whether this awareness remained situational, and if not, how the problems of class, or of the people, were then solved within this structure would become an important question.
KW - Im Hwa;national front;content – formality;theory of linguistic function;the Korean particularity.
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yonggyong chang. (2010). Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national. The Review of Korean History, 100, 179-217.

yonggyong chang. 2010, "Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national", The Review of Korean History, no.100, pp.179-217.

yonggyong chang "Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national" The Review of Korean History 100 pp.179-217 (2010) : 179.

yonggyong chang. Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national. 2010; 100 : 179-217.

yonggyong chang. "Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national" The Review of Korean History no.100(2010) : 179-217.

yonggyong chang. Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national. The Review of Korean History, 100, 179-217.

yonggyong chang. Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national. The Review of Korean History. 2010; 100 179-217.

yonggyong chang. Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national. 2010; 100 : 179-217.

yonggyong chang. "Im Hwa’s view on language and comprehending the national" The Review of Korean History no.100(2010) : 179-217.