2021, Vol., No.29

JAPAN SPACE 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.29

pISSN : 1976-1481
https://journal.kci.go.kr/japanspace

This paper considers how Hino Keizo began writing novels after covering the Vietnam War, and analyzes that the memories of war and colonization are newly recalled and embodied. Hino Keizo was born in Japan and moved to colonial Chosun in 1934. After Japan’s defeat in 1945, he repatriated to Japan. In the 1960s, he visited Seoul again, and returned to Japan as a correspondent to cover the Vietnam War. As a result, his literature represents the relative topology by the continuous movement and the existence of floating people, showing the expansion of boundaries between subject and space. This characteristic composes new relationships, representing a literary embodiment of “home”. Hino Keizo’s works from the early works to the series of autobiographical novels are created by continuous movement, representing the memories of war and colonization and symbolic of a new relativity and place of memory

Matsumoto Seicho served as a Nursing soldier in Yongsan and Jeongeup, for about a year and three months. From this experience, he wrote six novels and one autobiography. This paper analyzed related works focusing on the period Seicho spent in Yongsan. Through analysis of Seicho’s military-related works, first, I looked at the problems of expanding conscription and military service corruption to solve the shortage of troops. Secondly, you can see the barracks scenery of Yongsan and the daily life and feelings of Seicho, a Nursing soldier. Third, The problems of implementing the conscription system in colonial Chosen can be seen.

This paper examines several issues related to the introduction of Korean plays to Japan through three cultural events. For twenty years, fifty plays by fifty Korean playwrights have been translated into Japanese through the exchange program. The writers represented are diverse in their age and gender, and the translated works represent a wide range of genres from realism to avant-garde. The exchange program selected and performed Kyeokjeong-Manri for the season-ending show of its tenth event in January 2021. In the Japanese performance, various Korean repertories and historical events were explained using both diegetic and non-diegetic elements. The non-diegetic elements include the narrator’s explanations and the projection of subtitles on the back screen. In 2020, a translation of The History of Korean Play Movements, was published, but there are several problems with the translation that relate to the globalization of Korean literature. As the original was written with a nationalistic point of view characteristic of the twentieth century, the publication could not reflect recent transnational and postcolonial research that has emerged in the new millennium.