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In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial
intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century
had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers,
social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood. Kim
investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and
familial relationships-including romance, marriage, and kinship-in
literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss
colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and
colonial rule in Korea (1905-45). Focusing on Korean perspectives,
Kim uncovers political meaning in the representation of intimacy
and emotion between Koreans and Japanese portrayed in print media
and films. Imperial Romance disrupts the conventional reading of
colonial-period texts as the result of either coercion or the
disavowal of colonialism, thereby expanding our understanding of
colonial writing practices. The theme of intermarriage gave elite
Korean writers and cultural producers opportunities to question
their complicity with imperialism. Their fictions challenged
expected colonial boundaries, creating tensions in identity and
hierarchy, and also in narratives of the linear developmental
trajectory of modernity. Examining a broad range of writings and
films from this period, Imperial Romance maps the colonized
subjects' fascination with their colonizers and with moments that
allowed them to become active participants in and agents of
Japanese and global imperialism.
This collection examines literature and film studies from the late
colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and
highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean
popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre,
state regulation, and spectatorship. Calling for the
"de-colonializing" and "de-Cold Warring" of the two ex-colonies and
anticommunist allies, the book places Taiwan and Korea side by side
in a "trans-war" frame. Considering Taiwan-Korea relations along a
new trans-war axis, the book focuses on the continuities between
the late colonial period's Asia-Pacific War and the consequent
Korean War and the ongoing conflict between the two sides of the
Taiwan Strait, facilitated by Cold War power struggles. The
collection also invites a meaningful transcolonial reconsideration
of East Asian cultural and literary flows, beyond the conventional
colonizer/colonized dichotomy and ideological antagonism.
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