This study looks at how Sata Ineko’s 1953 short story Mune ni Egaku(Painted on the Hear) portrays the life of a Korean man living in postwar Japan. Through the figure of Choi, the narrative shows how the traces of Japan’s colonial rule continued to shape everyday relationships, often placing Koreans in an uneasy and highly visible position within Japanese society. Choi appears as a familiar neighbor, yet he never fully enters the narrator’s world. The way others notice his face, his Japanese, or his clothing quietly marks him as “outside,” and these details reveal the kind of distance that remained between Japanese and Koreans even after the war. Scenes such as his attempt to offer raw pig entrails, or the way he walks without looking around, hint at a person who has spent years managing other people’s gazes―balancing pride, embarrassment, and a habit of holding himself back. His living situation also reflects the instability many Koreans faced at the time. Moving from one temporary lodging to another and losing his position at a Korean school after its forced closure, Choi drifts between jobs and homes. He also avoids returning to his family in Korea. Taken together, these aspects echo Robert E. Park’s description of the “marginal man,” someone who belongs fully to neither society and survives in the space between. Although Sata’s depiction inevitably carries the assumptions of her era, the story also shows her attempt to understand the emotional weight carried by people like Choi. Mune ni Egaku thus illustrates both the persistence of discriminatory ways of seeing and the vulnerable humanity of those forced to live along the borders of postwar East Asian history.
1. 들어가며 2. 타자화된 시선 2.1 절제된 친밀 2.2 다름의 체감과 인식 3. 주변성의 공간 3.1 경계적 삶의 역사 3.2 경계 위의 공존 3.3 양가적 시선 4. 변주된 인간 4.1 경계 초월의 욕망 4.2 직업의 불안정 4.3 비정주적 존재 5. 나오며 【参考文献】 <要旨>
키워드
Ineko SataKorean WarPainted on the HeartKoreanliminality佐多稲子韓国戦争胸に描く朝鮮人境界
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.