This study has the purpose of identifying the historical awareness immanent in Ha Geun-chan’s novels. In Korean literature, Ha Geun-chan has been recognized as a postwar-period writer. This is probably because his masterpiece is known to be his early works, such as , , etc. and because a considerabl...
This study has the purpose of identifying the historical awareness immanent in Ha Geun-chan’s novels. In Korean literature, Ha Geun-chan has been recognized as a postwar-period writer. This is probably because his masterpiece is known to be his early works, such as , , etc. and because a considerable part of his novels deals with the Pacific War and the Korean War. While writing the war stories consistently, however, Ha Geun-chan took note of the contradictory reality evolved by a new power of the U.S. in the South Korean society after the Korean War, giving shape to the contradiction of Korea-Japan relations in the 1960’s into a novel. In Ha Geun-chan’s novels settle symbolically not only the ordeals and conquest caused by the war but also problems of the days related to the nation’s modern history. This study investigated these through his concrete works. Chapter II explored the sense of life and process of awakening of subordinated and oppressed subaltern through the works known as the representative war material of Ha Geun-chan’s novels. Unlike , , , and which simply reported the life of persons suffering from the war and its violence, this study noted that , and show some resistance of their own. Subaltern who became aware that their unhappy life was due to the contradictory oppression and violence from national power, overthrew the point of the working power as a base for resistance to create a crack and reveal the split by breaking the dichotomy of rule and obedience. Chapter III looked into a work that contains ‘the unreasonable reality of spiritual and economic subordination under the strong power of the U.S,’ another malady suffered by the South Korean society after the war. His works containing the reality of causing a crevice after losing identity to the power of the U.S., which existed in our society as a new power after the liberation, show a remarkable perception of reality in the 1960’s. By sounding an alarm against existence of the American imperialism that supplanted the Japanese imperialism, Ha Geun-chan interrupts neocolonialism expressing his refusal of the new ruling system. Chapter IV looked into Ha Geun-chan’s memory of the colony shown in the way of viewing the Korea-Japan relations. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, over twenty years after getting released from the colony of Japanese imperialists, Ha Geun-chan creates work with the material of colonial experience in his childhood. The issue of 1965 Korea-Japan ties closed despite the student demonstration and movement against bilateral talks was another problem settling in Ha Geun-chan’s novels. In the 70’s after the liberation, Ha Geun-chan perceived the unjustness of Korea-Japan ties signed without proper liquidation of the past history and adhered to writing novels of calling memory of the colony as a means to stopping the wrong history of the colony under Japanese imperialists from being forgotten. Here, his autobiographical experience exists in the novel in the form little different from testimony. He reconstructs the facts distorted by the ruling discourse based on his memory to form am opposing discourse. This can be considered a literary practice to face up to the historical contradiction of the past and the present society and overcome them. Ha Geun-chan effectively gave shape to problems exposed to the South Korean society during and after the Korean War to reveal a sense of crisis, which makes his literature ‘writing novels of denouncing the problems of the time penetrating into the flow of history. For a long active period, Ha Geun-chan focused on the contradictory picture of Korean society and kept embodying this with a critical mind. Such a creative act of his doesn’t simply remain at creation of works related to the war but sees through and reflects the change of the confusing days the author lived himself in and the resultant historical reality he came across. Ha Geun-chan focally exposed the power of the U.S., which became another evil practice for our society after the liberation, Korean War, violence from national power and abnormal Korea-Japan relations in his novels summoning the past memory to recount the present. Besides, he connects the past, the present and the future by fully realizing the awareness of the colony which existed at that time and resisting it on the evidence of remembering the history of oppression. The author’s historical awareness immanent in his novels is giving another meaning because it reconstructs the problematic reality of our society after the Korean War into literature and enables one to capture it consistently.
This study has the purpose of identifying the historical awareness immanent in Ha Geun-chan’s novels. In Korean literature, Ha Geun-chan has been recognized as a postwar-period writer. This is probably because his masterpiece is known to be his early works, such as , , etc. and because a considerable part of his novels deals with the Pacific War and the Korean War. While writing the war stories consistently, however, Ha Geun-chan took note of the contradictory reality evolved by a new power of the U.S. in the South Korean society after the Korean War, giving shape to the contradiction of Korea-Japan relations in the 1960’s into a novel. In Ha Geun-chan’s novels settle symbolically not only the ordeals and conquest caused by the war but also problems of the days related to the nation’s modern history. This study investigated these through his concrete works. Chapter II explored the sense of life and process of awakening of subordinated and oppressed subaltern through the works known as the representative war material of Ha Geun-chan’s novels. Unlike , , , and which simply reported the life of persons suffering from the war and its violence, this study noted that , and show some resistance of their own. Subaltern who became aware that their unhappy life was due to the contradictory oppression and violence from national power, overthrew the point of the working power as a base for resistance to create a crack and reveal the split by breaking the dichotomy of rule and obedience. Chapter III looked into a work that contains ‘the unreasonable reality of spiritual and economic subordination under the strong power of the U.S,’ another malady suffered by the South Korean society after the war. His works containing the reality of causing a crevice after losing identity to the power of the U.S., which existed in our society as a new power after the liberation, show a remarkable perception of reality in the 1960’s. By sounding an alarm against existence of the American imperialism that supplanted the Japanese imperialism, Ha Geun-chan interrupts neocolonialism expressing his refusal of the new ruling system. Chapter IV looked into Ha Geun-chan’s memory of the colony shown in the way of viewing the Korea-Japan relations. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, over twenty years after getting released from the colony of Japanese imperialists, Ha Geun-chan creates work with the material of colonial experience in his childhood. The issue of 1965 Korea-Japan ties closed despite the student demonstration and movement against bilateral talks was another problem settling in Ha Geun-chan’s novels. In the 70’s after the liberation, Ha Geun-chan perceived the unjustness of Korea-Japan ties signed without proper liquidation of the past history and adhered to writing novels of calling memory of the colony as a means to stopping the wrong history of the colony under Japanese imperialists from being forgotten. Here, his autobiographical experience exists in the novel in the form little different from testimony. He reconstructs the facts distorted by the ruling discourse based on his memory to form am opposing discourse. This can be considered a literary practice to face up to the historical contradiction of the past and the present society and overcome them. Ha Geun-chan effectively gave shape to problems exposed to the South Korean society during and after the Korean War to reveal a sense of crisis, which makes his literature ‘writing novels of denouncing the problems of the time penetrating into the flow of history. For a long active period, Ha Geun-chan focused on the contradictory picture of Korean society and kept embodying this with a critical mind. Such a creative act of his doesn’t simply remain at creation of works related to the war but sees through and reflects the change of the confusing days the author lived himself in and the resultant historical reality he came across. Ha Geun-chan focally exposed the power of the U.S., which became another evil practice for our society after the liberation, Korean War, violence from national power and abnormal Korea-Japan relations in his novels summoning the past memory to recount the present. Besides, he connects the past, the present and the future by fully realizing the awareness of the colony which existed at that time and resisting it on the evidence of remembering the history of oppression. The author’s historical awareness immanent in his novels is giving another meaning because it reconstructs the problematic reality of our society after the Korean War into literature and enables one to capture it consistently.
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