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- Title: Assimilation Through Resistance: Language and Ethnicity in Kim Saryang's "Hikari No Naka Ni".
- Author : Southeast Review of Asian Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 226 KB
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In the short story "Hikari no naka ni" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (In the light, 1939), Kim Saryang (1914-50) critiques the desire of colonized Koreans to participate in the colonial policy of assimilation through such acts as adopting Japanese names. Ironically, this resistance to assimilatory policies ultimately leads to a different path toward assimilation. Similar to Kim's own success in life as an author of works written in the language of his colonizers (Japanese), the resolution his text offers--resistance to assimilation through acceptance of one's Korean ethnicity--results in assimilation through this very act of resistance, suggesting that resistance through the use of the colonizer's tools inevitably produces complicity. Assimilation through Resistance: Chang Hyok-ju & Kim Saryang