英文摘要 |
The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and the early presidential election in 2017 that ensued had brought about a profound impact on the political and social situation in South Korea. Situated at this conjuncture, the movies A Taxi Driver (2017) and 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) released in the same year have not only made a remarkable commercial success, but also gave impetus to thinking about how to ''re-historicize'' the South Korean history of the second half of the 20th century. With a deep concern for the ''de-historicization'' tendency latent in these two films in mind, this article undertakes the task of contextualizing the historicity of narratives of decolonization in East Asia and the Third World, in order to rethink the issue of subjectivity in such context. For this reason, this article tries to tackle the somewhat unfamiliar and ''precarious'' intellectual task of restructuring the genealogy of ''decolonialist'' thoughts in East Asia. By revisiting the regional landscape of the late-twentieth-century East Asia history of ideas, which was heavily influenced by Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977), Mizoguchi Yuzo (1932-2010) and others, I try to reposition the ideas raised by South Korean thinker Park Hyun-Chae on nationalism, national economy and social characteristics, in order for us to better utilize these intellectual legacies to formulate new research questions, and to better understand and overcome the intellectual crisis of South Korea in the 21st century |