이��래의 Gesture Life과 Postcolonialism에 관련해서 쓴 에세이

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the narrator and protagonist, Hata in “A Gesture life”(Chang-Rae Lee, 1999) within the framework of postcolonial theory .
A Gesture life tells the readers Korean colonial experiences based on the true historical fact, more specifically, the plight of Korean comfort women during the Japanese colonial occupations. Such colonial experiences have a profound impact on Hata’s whole life. To follow Edward Said’s argument (in “Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors”), to have been colonized is a fate with lasting, grotesquely unfair results. In that sense, Noam Chomsky also says that “Oppression and exploitation continue. Ours, I submit, is not an age of postcolonialsim but of intensified colonialism, even though it is under an unfamiliar guise” .
In A Gesture life, Hata seems to have a good reputation in a small town called Bedley Run. He owns a beautiful house, is well respected in the community and is wealthy. However, we can find out that what he had experienced during war is hidden behind his seemingly peaceful present and that he has still remained in the aftermath of the traumatic experience around the war and the comfort woman K