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Dissemi-nations and the Political Aporia of a Migrant Nation : Focusing on An Su-gil’s Bukgando

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2021, (32), pp.223~260
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..32.202110.223
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : September 30, 2021
  • Accepted : October 25, 2021
  • Published : October 31, 2021

Young Shil Yoon 1

1숭실대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the dissemi-nations and the political aporia of Korean immigrants in Manchuria during the first half of the 20th century by analyzing An Su-gil's novel Bukgando from the immanent perspective of a migrant nation. A migrant nation has an identity-in-differance in that it not only shakes the identity of the preexisting nations with their transnational border crossing and but also changes their own identity in the process of searching for a new home as “the place in the world.” In Part II, I analyzed the dissemi-nations of the Korean Manchurian identity by focusing on the distance between the author and the subaltern characters depicted in the novel and on the fissures of the text in order to deconstruct the presumably nationalist narrative. In Part III, I highlighted the ruptures of Korean Manchurian identity from the pressures of competing sovereign- states, conflicting national pedagogies, and intra-nation confrontations. Jeong-su's narrative in the latter part of the novel reveals the ruptures of his identity between clashing subjectifications. By questioning the meaning of Jeong-su's trembling and hesitations in the battlefields, however, I also groped for the possibility of a new politics and ethics that is irreducible to functions of state powers or nation-states.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.