Post-colonial fiction in Korea
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Post-colonial fiction is characterized by its authors' experiences as witnesses to occupation by foreign powers. Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns and Richard E. Kim's Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood both capture the devastating impact of the political and socioeconomic oppression of the foreign and colonial occupation on their homelands. Both authors lived through the events they wrote about -- the cultivation of the economic dependence of the Palestinian people on Israel (Khalifeh 21), the elimination of the studies of Korean from schools (Kim 117), along with the brutal oppression of dissident activities. In both cases, the Israeli and Japanese occupiers had sought to stifle the Palestinians' and Koreans' efforts to assert their nationalist identities and aspirations (Khalifeh 73; Kim 6). The focus of this paper is to examine the diverse effects of the oppressive methods depicted in the two novels. The oppression of the colonial forces had different effects on individual characters in both novels. Their responses occupied a wide spectrum. For example, Usama decided to reclaim his homeland by becoming a terrorist (Khalifeh 5). Yet it is important to note that Usman also experienced a conflict of emotions in his extremist decision, which were illuminated before his death. Even as he attempted to justify his terrorist acts by asserting that he was a "martyr to the cause," Usama still clung to images of survival and domestic bliss: "[his mother]. The oven fir
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Approximate Word count = 946
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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