Generational Struggle: Postwar Korean Views of Anti-colonial Violence in Minshu Chōsen and Hinawajū no uta

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https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2025.384

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Considering a variety of historical incidents, this study examines how liberated Koreans living in postwar Japan wrote about resistance movements of the colonial period. I argue that as part of the mission to develop a new founding mythos for the modern Korean nation (envisioned as a single unified state) several of these authors focused on establishing the necessity for violent anti-Japanese resistance, valorizing the historical incidents of it, and tying these acts to the development of Marxist political consciousness. By juxtaposing the agitprop editorials of a Korean centered postwar magazine, ‘Democratic Korea’ (Minshu Chōsen, 1946-1950), with Ho Nam-gi’s 1951 epic poem The Song of the Musket (Hinawajū no uta), I connect the efforts of political activists with the budding movement of Korean cultural workers using the Japanese language as a medium. In both cases, Koreans voiced their anti-colonial critique directly to the former colonizer and situated Korean resistance movements within a broader and ennobled historical context.

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Robert J. Del Greco is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Oakland University. His research interests include Zainichi literature, Japanese colonialism, popular media in contemporary Japan, and Japanese detective fiction. Prof. Del Greco was awarded his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2018. His dissertation discusses the postwar coterie magazine Democratic Korea and the intersection of literary production and political activism in the postwar Zainichi community.

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Wŏn Yong-dŏk, “Kōshū gakusei jiken to wa nani ka.” Minshu Chōsen 2 (May 1946): 11-16. Reprinted in Fukkoku Minshu Chōsen Vol 1: 81-86.

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2025-04-19

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巻 59 号 1 (2025): Japanese Language and Literature

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