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The picture of Korea in the colonial period drawn by Nakajima Atsushi in his 'Junsa no iru fukei' is not just an embodiment of his own experience of Korea, or the harsh reality of a colony overflowing with discrimination at the hands of the Japanese. Rather, as is shown by analyzing the setting of a 'Korean policeman' and '1923', it at once preserves the structure of discrimination, while presenting the assimilationism that function together with this. Again, it presents the ambivalence surrounding Imperial Japan's discrimination which, while rejecting discrimination, could not in fact cease discriminating. As we see from scenes where Koreans are arrested and oppressed by Koreans, a feature shared by the characters 'Cho Kyo Young' and 'Kim Dong Ryen' in the story, the upshot of this is that we find inscribed in the narrative the process whereby the relations of domination in the colony are replaced by divisions among the colonized, and in the end this stimulates a sense of their own ethnicity, leading to the breakdown of assimilationism itself. At this point it is not difficult to imagine the repugnance that Nakajima himself felt fot assimilationism.

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中島敦が｢巡査の居る風景－一九二三年の一つのスケッチ｣で描いた植民地朝鮮の風景は、単に彼自身の朝鮮体験を具現化したものでもなければ、日本人による差別に満ちた植民地の厳しい現実でもなかった。それより｢朝鮮人巡査｣と｢一九二三年｣という設定への分析によって明らかになったように、むしろ差別の構造を温存しながら、それとともに機能した同化主義のあり様であり、また差別を否定しながらも差別をやめることができない帝国日本の差別をめぐる両面性であった。そして、その結末として、趙教英と金東蓮の物語に共通する、朝鮮人によって朝鮮人が逮捕・抑圧される場面からわかるように、植民地の支配関係を被植民者同士の対立にすり替え、結局は彼らの民族意識を刺激してしまう、同化主義の破綻を描きこんだのである。ここで、中島の抱いていた同化主義への嫌悪感を想像するのはむずかしくない。