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Lamentation As History: Narratives By Koreans In Japan, 19652000,New
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This book examines narratives by and about the Koreans in Japan from the mid1960s through 2000. In so doing, it traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of this group as a minority community within Japan. Koreans are the only significant postcolonial population to have been subjects of a nonWestern empire, yet this is the first fulllength study in English of their literature. While scholars have tended to treat literary and political developments as separate historical processes, this book proposes that the two are inextricably interwoven, and that only by examining them together will we be able adequately to understand identity, a concept so fraught and yet so essential to modern individualswhether members of a minority or not. Because of this approach, the author is able to consider issues such as the importance of life stories for political purposes and the place of gender, both metaphorically and in reality, for ethnic selfdefinition. The book thus engages in discussions already under way among those interested in minority and postcolonial identity elsewhere in the world.
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