재일한인의 자기역사(自分史)에 관한 기록 특징과 의미 - ‘사랑방의 어머니들’ 사례를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of the records of the personal history of KoreanJapanese and their meaning. Personal history records center on one's own experiences, and they are the contact points where the entire history and the individual's history meet. In this study, the collection of Mothers of Sarangbang were selected and analyzed as records of personal histories. This collection contains 49 cases of firstgeneration Korean Japanese. The result shows that the personal historical records of KoreanJapanese have played a role in keeping individual histories in the community of memory and passing on their experiences to the next generation. In addition, the characteristics of personal history recorded through the case of 'Mothers in Sarangbang' are as follows: records of exclusion from education and continuous labor, records of war experiences and social events, and records of night middle school life. Although this characteristic of personal history writing is subjective, it coincides with the meaning of selfhistory, which reveals and places meaning in writing one's history. Personal history with the purpose of being recorded in history is consistent with the characteristics of recording war experiences, hard memories, social success experiences, and the history of family and hometown.