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Beyond the Colonised and the Colonisers: Intellectual Discourse and the Inclusion of Korean-Japanese Women's Voices

For several decades the ‘Korean’ resident communities in Japan have attempted to have their voices heard through a variety of written genres. Yu Miri and Yi Yang-ji have won the Akutagawa award for literary works about their lives as zainichi. Others, through their positions as public commentators or intellectuals, have critiqued Japanese society and the treatment of zainichi and other marginalised communities. In recent years there has been an emergence of Korean-Japanese feminists who are contributing to this genre of writing, bringing new and valuable insights. The aim of this paper is to provide access to this work for a wider non-Japanese literate audience. The paper demonstrates how these emergent voices use gender and feminist theoretical frameworks to contest the dominant discourse of race and ethnicity as central to the process of decolonisation in zainichi resistance. It argues that the participation of women commentators in zainichi forums has resulted in a shift from a race/ethnicity limited approach to a more multi-vocal, multi-positional reality inclusive of women's perspectives.