徐京植の批評活動におけるユダヤ人とパレスチナ人 - コリアン・ディアスポラと「新しい普遍性」の探求 -
Suh Kyunsik discussing Jews and Palestinians : Korean Diaspora and the Quest for a “New Universality”
As a Korean critic living in Japan, Suh Kyunsik was able to connect the anguish of being discriminated against as an ethnic minority and the anguish of having two older brothers imprisoned as political prisoners under the Cold War and dictatorship to the universal challenges of humanity through the “window” of Western arts. This is known as Suh's lifework, “humanistic travelogues”. On the other hand, in order to affirm Korean identity in diaspora while resisting racism and colonialism, Suh had referred to the works of Jewish writers who experienced the Holocaust in Europe and Palestinian refugee writers who lost their homes to Israel. This was also an attempt to show that the historical experience of Koreans in Japan can be located in the history of worldwide imperialism and has universality. While the European world used to presume and monopolize universality, Suh has attempted to create a “new universality” by reconsidering the experience of East Asian Koreans in Japan through the “window” of European cultural history and Jewish and Palestinian literature.