This paper considers 'wandering consciousness' of Kim, So-wol, Lee, Sang-hwa and Oh, Jang-hwan's Poetry as the expression of 'colonial diaspora'. Also, by including colonial particularities in the discussion of diaspora, it aims to enrich the existing...
This paper considers 'wandering consciousness' of Kim, So-wol, Lee, Sang-hwa and Oh, Jang-hwan's Poetry as the expression of 'colonial diaspora'. Also, by including colonial particularities in the discussion of diaspora, it aims to enrich the existing concept of diaspora.
Until now, studies on diaspora in the Western and Korean academia have mainly focused on disposition of space and identity, without considering particularities of the colonized. The colonized perceive their place of residence as a place belong to the mainland of the colonizer because of the fact that they lost their country, material and mental sense of alienation, political and economical discrimination, etc. This is diasporic in that it leads them to consider their country before the colonization as symbolic homeland and the land which they should regain.
Kim, So-wol and Lee, Sang-hwa described wandering consciousness of the subject who lost its destination because of oppression and discrimination by the colonizer. Paek, Seok and Lee, Yong-ak tragically depicted the life of Koreans who had to leave homeland and wandered about the northern region. By portraying the life of sailors who wandered about the stateless space(harbour), Oh, Jang-hwan expressed the colonial subject's wandering consciousness, that is, 'colonial diaspora consciousness'.