Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 674-708).

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La littérature des Coréens du Japon ou la littérature des Coréens zainichi (zainichi signifie littéralement « étant au Japon ») obtient une large reconnaissance sur la scène littéraire japonaise à partir de la fin des années 1960, mais l’apparition des premiers écrivains zainichi remonte au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, dans une période marquée par la décolonisation de la Corée et plus tard par la guerre de Corée. Le présent travail consiste à mettre en perspective le processus de construction d’un discours littéraire à caractère identitaire et ce jusqu’à sa mise en question, ainsi qu’à examiner les stratégies esthétiques que mettent en œuvre les écrivains afin de se démarquer de la littérature japonaise. Cette recherche porte principalement sur le travail de trois écrivains majeurs de cette littérature : Kim Tal-su 金達寿(1919-1997), Kim Sŏk-pŏm 金石範(1925-) et Yi Yang-ji李良枝(1955-1992) qui représentent respectivement la période de l’émergence de l’écriture zainichi de 1946 jusqu’au début des années 1950, celle de la reconnaissance d’un statut littéraire spécifique au début des années 1970 et celle du renouvellement tant thématique que narratif des années 1980. Si ces auteurs se distinguent dans leur thématique et dans leur style, ils ont en commun d’inventer une nouvelle écriture dans une situation d’exigence – autrement dit diasporique – où représenter chaque vie et chaque voix singulière peut aussitôt prendre une dimension mémorielle aussi bien que politique. Ainsi, l’évolution de la littérature zainichi est-elle aussi celle de la voix narrative qui se forme et se renouvelle dans cette tension permanente entre le subjectif et le collectif. / Zainichi Korean literature (zainichi literally meaning “to be in Japan”) has met widespread recognition on the Japanese literary scene since the late 1960s. But in fact Korean zainichi writers emerged earlier: in the aftermath of WW2, during the decolonization of Korea and the subsequent Korean War. This dissertation focuses on the construction process of a new literary discourse, intricately linked to the question of identity, but also on the criticism it underwent. Furthermore, this work analyzes the aesthetic strategies used by each author to distance theirs works from Japanese literature. This dissertation focuses on the following three authors: Kim Tal-su (1919-1997), Kim Sŏk-pŏm (1925-) and Yi Yang-ji (1955-1992), who respectively represent a period of development of zainichi literature: the emergence of zainichi writers between 1946 to early 1950, the establishment of a new literary category in the early 1970s, and the thematical and narrative renewal in the 1980s.These authors worked on different themes and wrote in distinct styles, and yet their writings were all born within a complex relationship to their community, as a minority and diaspora. As such, they narrate individual histories, which also carry a memorial and political dimension. Thus, the history of zainichi literature is also a history of individual voices, which emerge from and permanently renew the tension between the subjective and the collective.

(in English): This master's thesis focus on the repatriation of Koreans from Japan after World War II. The repatriation process was in many aspects more complicated than it could seem to be at the first sight. A hindrance to the repatriation of more than 2 million Koreans, who were left behind in Japan after the end of war, was vague politics of Supreme Command for Allied Powers (SCAP). SCAP did not possess any specific plan considering Koreans and other foreigners in Japan after its arrival to the Japanese archipelago. Therefore, the government of Japan was the one who seized upon the Korean repatriation and began sending ships from Japan's islands loaded with Korean laborers and soldiers, who were living testimony of its war crimes and a thread for Japanese public order. The government of Japan, however, was limited by number of ships, which it could provide for transportation of Koreans, and by number of available ports. As the waiting time for boarding on a repatriation ship was getting longer and longer, majority of Koreans could not wait anymore. In those cases, they usually decided to rent a small vessel, by which they got transported to the Korean peninsula. Those vessels, however, were making their voyages without a permission and were easy target for pirates or typhoons, which were...

This thesis concentrates on literary works written by writers belonging to the resident Korean minority in Japan (zainichi Koreans). Through the use of postcolonial methodology, this work attempts to monitor the development and changes in the complex concept of "identity" in works written between the 1960s and 2010. The thesis is divided into two major parts. The first, theoretical part, explains the birth of the minority, the conflicts that influenced it and the changes it went through during its history. Postcolonial methodology is also explained, with focus put on the parts that are relevant to Japan. The second, practical part of the thesis, shortly explains the history of zainichi literature and then concentrates on five important postwar resident Korean writers - Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, Yi Yang-ji, Kaneshiro Kazuki and Yu Miri. It analyzes between one and four works by each author and attempts to identify changes in the perception of "identity". It also takes into account female characters and the way they are portrayed by the authors and also the language the book is written in, focusing on whether the author chooses to incorporate the Korean language into the text.