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Constructing National and Literary Identity : The Inner Manchuria Cultural Symposium and Seon-Kei Literature in the Japanese Colonial Context

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2023, (35), pp.43~68
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..35.202304.43
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : March 16, 2023
  • Accepted : April 16, 2023
  • Published : April 30, 2023

Cui Yi 1 Wang, Xiuyuan 2

1延邊大學
2중국 연변대학 조한문학원

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the political and cultural context of Seon-Kei, or Korean literature in Manchuria and the efforts made to construct the Seon-Kei literary identity amidst the Japanese colonial context. Specifically, the paper focuses on the Inner Manchuria Culture Symposium, where Japanese, Manchu, and Seon-Kei writers engaged in dialogue on whether to write in Japanese or their own mother tongues. The paper reveals the Seon-Kei as a fictive identity of a colonized ethnic group and analyzes the group’s rejection of the Japanese writing system as a form of resistance. This sentiment grew out of a desire to recreate and reimagine Manchuria as a new country, distinct from both China and colonial Korea. However, due to the semi-colonial status of Manchuria under Japanese imperialism, this desire failed to build political and cultural foundations and eventually subsumed within the discourse of colonial power.

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