부산대학교 도서관

Generation studies are generally regarded as having particularly strong explanatory power for analyzing cultural and political elites. In addition, recent generational studies tend to emphasize trauma as crucial to the formation of a group’s identity. Based on these trends in generational theory, the main contribution of this paper is to analyze the development and nature of the post-liberation generational discourses of the Korean student-soldier generation, the colonial educational elites. This will reveal the presence of a national narrative at the core of this generation’s generational discourse and the important ways in which this generational national narrative is repeated and appropriated in similar forms. In conclusion, I will argue that for this generation, the ‘nation’ was the site of the return and validation of repressed masculinity.