- Program：Master’s Program
- Enrollment in：April 2020
- Study Plan：Culture and Communication
- Directed Research: Culture and Translation
Message
My master’s thesis; “History Has Failed Us, But No Matter;” illustrates how a cross-diasporic dialogue facilitates the reconstruction of minor histories. The center of my focus is Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017), a historical fiction about the lives of long-term resident Koreans in Japan, or the so-called “Zainichi.” Utilizing the new historicist approach, I analyze Lee’s strategic appropriation of Korean American discourses to recreate the missing social web of the Zainichi Korean community. Since Lee’s transpacific narrative not only restores Zainichi Korean voices but contributes to new economic, religious, and societal angles, my analysis of Pachinko will bring to the fore another possible way to represent the history of the Korean diaspora in Japan.
