This paper aims to analyze Nam Jung-Hyun`s novel `Who are You?`, `The Report of Undressing` in detail, and reveal an aspect of the internalization of masculinity after the Korea War. Anti-American sentiment in Korea thought America of a enemy formally...
This paper aims to analyze Nam Jung-Hyun`s novel `Who are You?`, `The Report of Undressing` in detail, and reveal an aspect of the internalization of masculinity after the Korea War. Anti-American sentiment in Korea thought America of a enemy formally. Also it implied nationalism because protecting a pure racial characteristics. But it was contradictory because coexisting with imitating America. Anti-American sentiment in Nam Jung-Hyun`s novels was similar to American imperialism. Criticism lived together imitation in his novels. His Novels clung to a pure lineage and independence. Therefore Anti-American sentiment in Nam Jung-Hyun`s novels criticized American imperialism and imitated the mechanism of imperialism simultaneously. Nam Jung-Hyun`s novels criticized violence of imperialism thro-ugh the grandiose characters and comment in story level. But they objectified the Woman in narration level in an identical way. This dual structure was a special feature not only in Nam Jung-Hyun`s novels but also in the 50`s and 60`s novels implied Anti-American sentiment. The violence of internalizing imperialism was a topic in a nationalism discourse for the purpose of being the real manhood. But this was the fantasy of male subject.