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Nation Imagination in Kim Chang-geol’s Short Stories after the Liberation

Cui Yi 1

1延邊大學

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ABSTRACT

Kim Chang-geol has been left the distinctive effect on the Manchu-Korean literature and the Chinese Korean literature. First, his works were continuously published in the Manseon Daily News(滿鮮日報) and came to be recognized in literature. So his work of fiction has been included in The Budding Earth, which was the only collection of short stories in the Manchu-Korean literary scene. Second, Kim didn’t return to North Korea after the Liberation, and this kind of behavior was rare in those times. After all, he turned over the “nation” of the People’s Republic of China from one member of the colonial ethnic group, the Manchu-Korean. His two short stories, The New Village and The People Knowing Happiness are very important because these were published in the period of the formation of the ‘nation and ethnic’ group, the Korean Chinese(朝鮮族). This article investigated the ‘state imagination’ and ‘nation imagination’ in Kim Chang-geol’s works, including the analysis on the locality discourse in the Manchu-Korean literature.

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