Anti-discrimination student uprisings (known as “Issei Kyudan Toso”) arose in the late 1960s and early 1970s in several Japanese high schools in the Hanshin (Osaka-Kobe) area. Encouraged by the rapid rise of the Buraku liberation movement in the 1960s, Korean students attending Japanese high schools in the Hanshin area, who had passed as Japanese by using Japanese-style names began to identify as Koreans by using their real (ethnic) names. They established themselves as ethnic subjects who fought against discrimination in Japanese society and severely criticized Japanese teachers for turning a blind eye to the discrimination they faced and were victims of. This study reveals how identity politics functioned in this process by analyzing a recent novel titled “Bokura no Hanran (Our Rebellion),” written by a second-generation Zainichi Korean writer, Bang Jeongung. Bang was one of the leading activists of the student uprising, later became a high school teacher, and wrote a novel based on his own experiences after retirement. Bang’s novel provides valuable insight into how Korean students at Japanese high schools in the Hanshin area experienced the anti-discrimination movement in the late 1960s, when it was om the rise. From today’s perspective, the ethnic identity constructed in this movement seems to be too monolithic, even suppressive of each individual’s intersectionality; however, Bang’s novel depicts a strong enough momentum of this movement at its inception point to make participants focus on ethnic identity.
동국대학교 일본학연구소 [The Institute for Japanese Studies Dongguk University]
설립연도
1979
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
동국대학교 부설 일본학연구소는 일본의 역사, 문화, 사회를 연구하여 한일간의 상호이해증진과 문화교류에 이바지하고자 다음과 같은 사업을 실시한다. 첫째, 한일관계의 연구발표 및 강연회를 개최한다. 둘째, 정기 간행물과 연구도서 발간 및 자료를 수집한다. 셋째, 한일관련 연구비를 보조한다. 넷째, 내외 저명인사의 초빙과 임직원의 해외파견을 실시한다. 다섯째, 부속도서실을 운영한다. 여섯째, 기타 목적달성에 필요한 사업을 실시한다. 이상과 같은 사업을 통하여 한일관계의 이해의 폭을 넓힘으로써 지금까지 가깝고도 먼 양국관계에서 가까운 양국관계를 구축해 가는데 일조하고자 한다.