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Ghosts of Empire: Disjunctures of Liberation in Kim Seok-beom’s Summer 1945
Korean Studies Quarterly / Korean Studies Quarterly, (P)2671-8197; (E)2733-936X
2025, v.48 no.4, pp.372-404
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(2025). Ghosts of Empire: Disjunctures of Liberation in Kim Seok-beom’s Summer 1945. , 48(4), 372-404.
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Abstract
This article rereads Zainichi Koreans’ experiences of liberation and defeat through the lens of the “disjuncture of liberation,” using Kim Seok-beom’s Summer 1945 as the core text. It argues that prior work—centered on “April 3” authorship and broad identity discourse—overlooks how early Cold War realignments in Japan and on the Korean peninsula intersect with the novel’s internal discourse. Integrating policy history, discourse analysis, and narrative technique, the study shows how the double logic of GHQ occupation policy, the Cold War Reverse Course, and state/press framing destabilized Zainichi legal and social status. A close reading of a second-generation narrator’s focalization and testimonial reliability unsettles the equation “liberation=redemption,” revealing how ghosts of empire persist as a contemporary memory regime. Tracing internalized imperial power in the Kyōwakai cohort and everyday scenes, the article redefines liberation as the politics of memory, ascription, and exclusion, and demonstrates how personal fissures and postwar institutions interact to perpetuate unredressed violence—thereby repositioning Zainichi conditions as a problem in intellectual history.
- keywords
- 김석범, 해방의 시차, 제국의 유령들, 재일조선인, 역코스, 기억 레짐, Kim Seok-beom, disjuncture of liberation, ghosts of empire, zainichi koreans, reverse course, memory regime
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