| About the
presentation:
Sex is everywhere in the
fiction of people of Korean descent in Japan. Sometimes that sex is a fulfilling
act, but more often it is unpleasant,
even brutal. This
fictional violence usually finds its source in real experience, but it
also usually works as a metaphor. For example, as is the case in
other colonial and postcolonial literatures, rape often represents colonization,
the body of the woman standing in for the victimized nation.
In this paper I will examine not only instances of rape, but also masochism
and incest in the fiction of both men and women authors. In so doing
I consider not only what these authors are attempting to say through their
manipulation of sexual metaphors but what effects their literature might
have for women and men, Korean and Japanese.
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