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Kim Naesŏng was one of the leading detective fiction writers in colonial Korea. As he publicly stated at the time, he was much inspired by Edogawa Rampo’s works. Although detective fiction has become ...a globally accepted and experimented literary genre, paralleling Rampo and Kim presents an interesting case to see how the technique of unfamiliarizing human behavior and spaces, so prevalent in the genre, raises the question of the difference between imitation and the original. This difference goes beyond stylistic; rather, it directs us to face the complex map of the cultural sphere of the Japanese empire where the question of subjectivity destabilizes the ontology of the empire itself. This paper aims to identify sites where the distinction between imitation and original becomes slippery by examining works by Kim and Rampo; and to elucidate heterogeneous effects of the Japanese imperialism embedded in detective fiction.show more
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