Imperial Romance

Yun Kim Su

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In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood. Kim investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and familial relationships-including romance, marriage, and kinship-in literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and colonial rule in Korea (1905-45). Focusing on Korean perspectives, Kim uncovers political meaning in the representation of intimacy and emotion between Koreans and Japanese portrayed in print media and films. Imperial Romance disrupts the conventional reading of colonial-period texts as the result of either coercion or the disavowal of colonialism, thereby expanding our understanding of colonial writing practices. The theme of intermarriage gave elite Korean writers and cultural producers opportunities to question their complicity with imperialism. Their fictions challenged expected colonial boundaries, creating tensions in identity and hierarchy, and also in narratives of the linear developmental trajectory of modernity. Examining a broad range of writings and films from this period, Imperial Romance maps the colonized subjects' fascination with their colonizers and with moments that allowed them to become active participants in and agents of Japanese and global imperialism.

Sujets

• Popular culture
• History of art
• Korea
• History of Asia
• Corée

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501751905
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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IMPERIAL ROMANCE

IMPERIAL ROMANCE Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945

SU YUN KiM

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESSODNONCAANDLITHA

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a grant from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong, which aided in the publication of this book.

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Kim, Suyŏn (Researcher of modern Korean fiction), author. Title: Imperial romance : fictions of colonial intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945 / Su Yun Kim. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020003681 (print) | LCCN 2020003682 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501751882 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501751899 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501751905 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Interethnic marriage—Social aspects—Korea—20th century. | Intermarriage in literature. | Japanese—Korea—History—20th century. | Korea—History—Japanese occupation, 1910–1945. | Korea—Colonial influence—20th century. Classification: LCC DS916.554 .K56 2020 (print) | LCC DS916.554 (ebook) | DDC 306.84/50951909041—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003681 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003682

Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: Imperial Romance 1.  Civilization and Enlightenment: The Role of the Japanese Home in the Early Colonial Period, 1905–1919 2.  Under the Same Roof: A Royal Wedding and a Mixed Family for the Ruling Class 3.  Wartime Ideology and the Integration of KoreanJapanese Mixed Families, 1930s 4.  Romance and Colonial Universalism 5.  Visualizing “International” and KoreanJapanese Marriage in Print Media Epilogue: Postcolonial Interracial Intimacy

Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Fîgures and Tabes

Figures 2.1. Pictures of PrinceŬ36n and Princess Pangja. 2.2. Wedding photo of PrinceŬn and Princess Pangja. 37 2.3. Announcement of royal engagement. 39 2.4. “Before the royal wedding of the crown prince, visits to homes representing ‘Japan and Korea as the same body.’” 41 3.1. Intermarriage statistics featured in the magazineNaisen ittai. 63 3.2. The march to initiate Japanese military participation inLove and the Vow. 81 5.1. Still fromAngels on the Streets. 104 5.2. “Sarangen kukkyŏngiŏ107pta” (Love has no borders). 5.3. A cover image ofNaisen ittai. 119

Tables 3.1. Number of KoreanJapanese marriages between 1923 and 1937 3.2. Number of KoreanJapanese marriages between 1938 and 1942

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Acknowedgments

Like many monographs dealing with colonial archives, this book has taken over a decade to finish, with many twists and turns. Many mentors, teachers, col leagues, and friends inspired this project along the journey. I am eternally grate ful to them. First, I thank my teachers and friends at the University of California, San Di ego (UCSD). I feel fortunate and honored to have received the guidance of such dedicated people, scholarly and politically, who offered models of how to be a scholar, thinker, and human being. My peers at UCSD have turned out to be lifelong friends and supporters, even when we live on different continents. Lisa Yoneyama, Jinkyung Lee, Takashi Fujitani, Lisa Lowe, and Yingjin Zhang pro vided instrumental comments on earlier versions of this book. Lisa Yoneyama was the best adviser any student could wish for. To her, I express my heartfelt gratitude for years of guidance and support. Jin and Tak have guided me with generosity and intellectual rigor throughout the years. I am also deeply thankful to Shelley Streeby and the late Rosemary Marangoly George, whose teachings have stayed with me and with this project. I had the best group of friends in graduate school: Neda Atanasoski, Aimee Bahng, Bill Boyer, Yufang Cho, Kim berly Chung, Shihszu Hsu, Julie Hua, Denise Khor, Jinah Kim, Kate McDonald, Ryan Moran, Gabriela Nuñez, Tomo Sasaki, Kazuyo Tsuchiya, and Rika YonemuraFabian. I am grateful for our continuous friendships and emotional support, on top of our intellectual exchanges. I thank Sehyun Cho, Inyi Choi, Heasoo Hwang, and Ji Hee Jung for including me in the sisterhood that started in San Diego and continues in Korea. Outside of UCSD, many mentors and friends supported this book by reading parts of earlier versions or helping me locate sources. I am grateful to Steve Chung, Michael Cronin, Todd A. Henry, Kelly Y. Jeong, Sonja M. Kim, Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Lee Hwajin, Yoon Sun Yang, Yang Insil, and Kyu Hyun Kim. Namhee Lee’s seminar at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a critical point in my intellectual journey. At Yonsei University, I benefited from the institutional sup port for visiting scholars and from many individuals’ generosity. I am thankful to Kim Chul, Lee Kyounghoon, the Hanil Munhak Yŏn’guhoe members, Baek Moonim, and Kim Hyunju. In Kyoto, I am grateful to Itagaki Ryuta for host ing me at Doshisha University as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow. I also thank Mizuno Naoki, the members of the former

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