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Nation-state Discourse Represented in the Plays of Ham Sae-deok -Centered on the Comparison of “Street is Cool Autumn” to “Old Tree”-

Baik, Seung Suk 1

1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis pursues to investigate the relationships between “Street is Cool Autumn” and “Old Tree” written by Ham Sae-deok. Both works represent the cracks of free will/compulsion. In “Street is Cool Autumn”, the cracks are sutured by dissolution of individualism and patenalistic nationalism. And in “Old tree”, the cracks are sutured by the idea of ‘truth of the left ideology’. A pro-Japanese drama from the colonial periods, “Street is Cool Autumn” and a drama produced by the Left during the liberation period, “Old tree” look very different at a glance, though the former had been adapted for the latter. But, both works do not reveal the difference of colonialism and post colonialism, but instead, rather shows us identity and continuity as a mirror image of each other. The Japanese colonial discourse and the left national discourse during the liberation period were established on the same ground. That was the very ‘making nation-state’, world-wide modernization projects.

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