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Since the collapse of the Japanese Empire following the end of World War II, research on modern Japanese literature has been reduced to focusing solely on literature within the Japanese domain, almost as though to say that a period of imperialism had never existed. The same can be said of research on literature from so-called ‘woeji’ (external territories) or ‘Japanese language based literature’. In fact, literary research has been synonymous with spatially internal ‘pure Japanese literature’, predominantly in the hands of permanent residents who have never had the need to go beyond the Japanese mainland. The result of such a situation may be seen as forgetting the traces of various mixtures created by the Japanese Empire. However, as there exist, to this day, various manifestations of traces stemming from the empire and the modern/contemporary cold war period, it cannot be said that modern and contemporary literature has been fully understood as a result of the national literary research mentioned. It is also one of the reasons for the need to begin to focus on aspects that have been forgotten and erased from such permanent resident centered research. In this sense, there is a need to transcend literature pertaining to various single nations, and to establish a broader concept of ‘East Asian literature’.

한국어

일본 근현대문학 연구는, 패전에 의한 제국붕괴 이후, 마치 제국시대가 존재하지 않았던 것처럼, 축소된 일본영토 내부의 문학만을 연구해 왔다。이른바 <외지>문학이나　<일본어문학>연구 역시, 주로 연구대상이 되어 온 것은 공간적 영토내부의 <순수일본문학>이었고, 본토 바깥으로 나가지 않아도 되었던 정주자들의 문학이었다. 그리고 그러한 상황은 제국시대가 만든 여러 가지 혼효의 흔적들을 망각하려 한 의식이 가져온 결과라고 할 수 있다. 그러나, 아직 근현대가 만든 여러 흔적이 여러 가지 형태로 나타나고 있는 오늘날, 그런 식의 내셔널 문학연구만으로는 근현대를 총체적으로 파악했다고는 할 수 없다. 앞으로의 연구에서, 그러한 정주자 중심적 연구에서 망각되고 소거된 부분에 대한 주목이 필요한 이유이기도 하다.