The purpose of this paper is to supervise the works of art of director Lu Zhang(1962) through the concept of ‘the homelossness(Heimatlosigkeit)’. So far, all studies on director Lu Zhang was focused on the concept of Diaspora. In fact, according to scholars, the concepts of the Diaspora are closely related to the concepts of ‘loss of nationality’, or ‘home loss’, because you can not think both positions appear separately. It sounds like the concepts of loss of nationality and of home loss tends to be regarded as the same.
This researcher carried out the study from the premise that a national loss and home loss are overlap, but both technically are different concepts.
Lost their nationality is not lost even a home. Nationality is safe and kept it as it is not home. We have usually understood Immigration in categories of trans-national, because we think about Immigration as moving across the country. However, recent research has preferred the concept of trans-local. They began to think about the Immigration as the creation of a new neighborhood in other areas.
In this context, this researcher want to argue that Diaspora should not be understand in the point of view of trans-national, but of trans-local. This researcher think that a series of works of director Lu Zhang meets such examples. In Grain in Ear, the heroine Soon-hi, who originally belong to community of Koreans, had fled around the area of the non-resident Koreans to avoid the glare of the wind because of her husband’ crime.
In The Border, refugees Soon-hi and her son Chang-ho attempt to build a new neighborhood in Mongolia Prairie where a few people lived. In Iri, the heroine Jinseo is wandering like a ghost in strange place after her home Iri City has disappeared without a trace by explosion, turned into the name of Iksan City. In Chongqing, the heroine Xu who escaping her hometown Chongqing which is going to devastate due to urbanization, tries to build a new neighborhood in a new city of Iksan in Korea. In The Dooman River, Chang-ho, China’s ethnic Korean nationality, had to defend the faith by death, as soon as the refugee friend Jungjin was arrested by the Chinese police.
In this paper, this researcher tried to show that through the work of these keywords are home loss characteristics, and there are common in that some form of hero are in an attempt to build a new neighborhood in other countries. To overcome the loss of home in a new neighborhood is none other than the creation of a trans-local.