Suffering Years Of Complementary Literature

Because they both belonged to the zone of Confucianism, from the ancient times China and Korea have had many cultural similarities and frequently have exchanged and influenced each other's literature. After Japanese occupation at the end of the nineteenth century, the literature o f China (especially in the North-East) and Korea were immersed in similar types of historical and linguistic context. The main event of this period is the birth of colonial and immigrant literature. This paper employs the methods of historical typology and imagologie to these two types of literature from a comparative perspective.The body of this paper has three sections:1. Comparison of the colonial literature of the two areas2. Comparison of the immigrant literature of the two areas3. Comparative study of the two literatures' images of 'The Other' with the tools of imagologie.In the first section, I compare the colonial literatures of the two areas.I introduce Japan's cultural policy and its effects, then narrate the primary characteristics of colonial literature. In this second section, there are two parts.First, I introduce the various narrative methods of the mentality of the resistance. There are direct and indirect methods of description. The literatures of the direct method mainly appeared at the beginning of the Japanese Occupation before it carried out clear cultural policies in the two areas. But under the strict control of the cultural policies, the resistance mentality was expressed through the literatures with the indirect method. By picturing the dark images of the colonial times, these literatures tried to emphasize the darkness of the reality of the occupation.Second, I introduce the rise and fall of the decadent literature. It appeared as a result of the indifference and insincerity of the time, and expressed despair, hopelessness and the 'End of the People.' However, it did not last long. At the end of this section, I compare Lian Shang-ding's "Green Valley" with Li gi-young's "Hometown." "Green Valley" is the paradigmatic novel of North-East China folk literature, and "Hometown" is the paradigmatic novel of Korean peasant literature. Both were written during the time of the Occupation, and pictured the peasants who were the most oppressed people of the time. Folk and peasant literatures were both interested in the countryside and farmers and has two characteristics in common: an interest in exposing the agonies of the lower-class or common people, and the darkness of the Occupying regime.In the second section,, I compare the immigrants literatures of the two areas using historical typology and imagologie. I analyze the meaning of immigrant literature. The basic condition of immigrant literature is a confused social atmosphere, and the main characteristic is an interest in the future of the nation and a recognition of the individual's fate. Based on this analysis, I summarize the characteristics of immigrant literature. This section has two parts.First, in the immigrant literature of both areas homesickness is a primary characteristic. This consists in nostalgia of hometown, together with both strong love and criticism of hometown people. Another variant of this nostalgia is expressed in a desire to return home. The homesickness in this immigrant literature contains an anti-colonial meaning.Second, the other characteristic of the two areas' immigrant literature is the tendency of resistance. The writers exposed the harshness and darkness of the Japanese Occupation and at the same time promoted the peoples' resistance against the Occupation. At the end of this chapter, I compare Xiao Hong's "The Town of Life-Death" with Gang Kyong-ai's "The Human Quest." I closely examine the complicated historical sense in these literatures. This includes the sense of class, nation and woman. I especiallyfocus on the way these female writers dealt with this complicated historical sense. Also, I look at their common interest in the fate of females.The last section of the paper I compare the imag...