This article aims to clear up a common feature between the studies on the Manchuria in 2000``s and Kim Yeon-soo``s novel, The Night Sings(2008). The former have suggested that there were complicated desire beyond the dichotomy of anti-Japanese and pro...
This article aims to clear up a common feature between the studies on the Manchuria in 2000``s and Kim Yeon-soo``s novel, The Night Sings(2008). The former have suggested that there were complicated desire beyond the dichotomy of anti-Japanese and pro-Japanese in Korean of Manchuria. This desire was transnational and postcolonial. The latter shows the same desire by describing Minsaengdan Affair. In The Night Sings appear two groups of people that collide each other, but they are accord in the awareness that Manchuria is alternative society. They exercise Rechtsetzend Gewalt to establish the nation-state which they want. Reformative Japanese tries to establish the nation-state that could not exist in Japan. Korean nationalists tries to establish the their own nation-state in which Korean people can make a comfortable living. But these two adversarial groups are accord in the awareness that the nation-state is always the good. On the other hand there was another group to cross the nation and colony by exercising the pure force.