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Desire and Politics of National Theater―focused on Drama Contest plays in the early 1940s ―

Ock-Ran Kim 1

1한양대학교

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The National Theater was a typical pro-Japanese theater in the end of colonial period of Japanese imperialism. In this paper, the concrete aspect of National Theater is studied by the works of National Theater in the early 1940s. The National Theater had various differences in them, which were regarded as a cases of obvious pro-Japanese Theater. For example, Im Sun-gyu, a popular play writer, wrote melodramatic National Theater in order to evade his responsibility to the pro-Japanese attitude. But the other side, Kim gun, same popular play writer, wrote direct pro-Japanese works by the means of taking the 'nation' and throwing away the 'popular'. And Song Young, seemed to be veak pro-Japanese as he didn't openly show his purpose of consciousness. But he emphasized the spirit of the Orient and the Japanese, and presented the deep-rooted Japanese sentiment. The National Theater represented the 'unpatriotic persons' which deviate from the 'patriotic person' or 'nation'. The National Theater dealt with a problem of 'a bad Korean', 'a person without a registered domicile' and 'a bankrupt of an ideal' by negative means. By studying them, we can see the postcolonial scenery of the wandering and scattering of 'unpatriotic persons' who was beyond the border of Manju, Japan and Korea.

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