Chinese Korean Novel In Japan, Korea Novel

In the early 20th century, Japanese imperialism invaded Korean peninsula. Lots of Korean people migrated to the North East of China, The former Soviet Union and Japan. Chinese-Korean literature and Japanese-Korean literature emerged under this back ground. "North Rural Association", a group of literature was found at Longjing City China November 1933. Since than "Gando" Korean writers were actually given a space for creating works. They write with enthusiasm to establish literature at their second hometown, and most of their works were reflecting immigrant's lives and their will to stay.Hyeokju Jang's "Hungry Ghosts" which reflected Korean farmers' instinctive resistance to the exploit of Japanese imperialism, won the second-class prize at "Transformation" Award in 1932. Since than Japanese-Korean writers were known by Japanese literacy circles. And Japanese literacy circles begun to concern these Japanese-Korean writers, by the time Saryang-Kim's "Toward the light" which fictionalized the conflicts of the national identity of Korean immigrants in Japan being nominated at Akutagawa Award in 1940.See from the feature of contents of literature, Chinese-Korean literature and Japanese-Korean literature can be classified into three generations. They are the first generation, the second generation and the third generation. The paper divided into three chapters, and will do comparative study on fictions literature of these three generations.Chapter 1 centered upon first generation of Chinese-Korean literature Gyeongjun Hyeon and Sugil' An, and the first generation of Japanese-Korean literature Hyeokju Jang, Saryang Kim and Dalsu Kim, in order to find out the common ground and difference between these two literatures and the possible reason.Personalities of the first generation of literature were developed during the colonial era. That why most of their works reflected despair, degenerate, compliance and resistance of intellectuals of that era which coming from the sorrows of being a colonial slave.One of the prominent characteristic of the first generation of Chinese-Korean literature is the willing of constructing their second hometown, and as for the first generation of Japanese-Korean literature, it is the conflict on using native language and Japanese and their national identity.Chapter 2 is of comparative study on the second generation of literature between Chinese-Korean and Japanese-Korean. The former centered upon Wongil Lee and Seonseok Park, and the latter centered upon Hoeseong Lee and Hakyeong Kim.Chinese-Korean writer Wongil Lee and Japanese-Korean writer Heoseong Lee's works were characterized by fictionalizing traditional images inherited from the ethnic, while the main feature of Chinese-Korean writer Sunseok Park and Japanese-Korean writer Hakyeong Kim's works focused on experiencing and healing of the trauma. Sunseok Park's works represented the suffering of the people which was caused by the left-leaning route of the party and also appealed certain reflections. While Hakyeong Kim's works which was attempted to heal the trauma which caused by stuttering and family inharmonious, but the work failed to be harmonized with the literacy, from which we can see the depth of the trauma caused by ethnical discrimination in Japan.Chapter 3 is of comparative study between Chinese-Korean writer Ryeonsun Heo, Heosun Lee, Sunghee Lee and Japanese-Korean writer yangji Lee and Miri Ryu.Works written by Chinese-Korean writer Ryeonsun-Heo and Janpanese-Korean writer Yangji Lee revealed awakening of the national identity which caused by the reality of sorrow and difficulty of being an immigrant, personality discrimination, conflicts on using language and cultural shocks.Chinese-Korean writer Heosun Lee, Sunghee Jo and Japanese-Korean Miri Ryu were all talking about the primal problem of modern society-breakdown of a family. Heosun Lee displayed the loneliness caused by the breakdown, and Sunghee Jo revealed self-awareness in the family breakdown, while Miri Ryu painted herself as a both insignificant and special woman, and expressed her strong rejection of building a family as well.China and Japan are contrast strongly with each other on politics, economy, culture, history and geography etc. Chinese-Korean literature and Japanese-Korean literature which were emerged and developed within, also has many common grounds. They are generated from the same ethnic and being immigrants. The reality made these literatures special and at the same time as a branch of overseas Korean literature they enrich relevant studies as well.