Lamentation as HistoryThis book examines narratives by and about the Koreans in Japan from the mid 1960s through 2000. In so doing, it traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of this group as a minority community within Japan. Koreans are the only significant postcolonial population to have been subjects of a non Western empire, yet this is the first full length study in English of their literature. While scholars have tended to treat literary and political