The Negotiation of Zainichi Identity and Resistance to Japanese Domination in Kazuki Kaneshiro Literary Text

Wawat Rahwati, - The Negotiation of Zainichi Identity and Resistance to Japanese Domination in Kazuki Kaneshiro Literary Text. IZUMI. ISSN 2338-249X

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Abstract

This study discusses the identity negotiation and resistance of the Zainichi minority to Japanese
domination as the majority group in the literary text by Kazuki Kaneshiro. Zainichi is Korean
people who came and have settled in Japan before and during World War II. As a minority
group in Japan, Zainichi often faces discrimination from Japanese people due to his identity.
Issues regarding the issue of Zainichi's identity are a dominant theme raised in the literary
work of Zainchi (Zainichi bungaku). One of the authors of Zainichi's literary works is Kazuki
Kaneshiro who wrote a novel entitled Go in 2007. Go novel as a literary text of Zainichi will
be used as research data to reveal how Zainichi's identity negotiations are articulated by
Zainichi characters and how their resistance against Japanese domination as the majority
community group. By using postcolonial studies and analyses the structure of the narrative text,
this research can reveal the forms of identity negotiation and resistances discourse represented
by Zainichi characters. Identity negotiation is seen through using Japanese name by Zainichi
characters while interacting with the Japanese and changing the nationality from Korean to
Japanese. Meanwhile, physical violence, mimicry (imitation), a mockery of Japanese
behaviours, and maintaining their identity and Korean culture as resistances to counter the
Japanese domination in the novel Go.
Keywords: Kazuki Kaneshiro; Negotiation; Postcolonialism; Resistance; Zainichi's Identity

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources
Divisions:	Artikel > Sastra
Depositing User:	BPSI Unas
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2022 11:55
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2022 11:55
URI:	https://repository.unas.ac.id/id/eprint/5087

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