성 노예 모티프와 『제스처 인생』

이영옥 ( Young Oak Lee ) 한국아메리카학회 2003 美國學論集 Vol.35 No.1

Though the confort woman issue provides a backbone to Chang-rae Lee`s novel, A Gesture Life, issues addressed in this novel not only are those of gender and sexuality resulting from the comfort-woman system during Japanese rule, but also are closely connected with the problems of nationalism and colonialism. The author presents Hata, with the construction and constraints of being an Asian male, proccupied with his acceptance into a society and nation of his choice. The nexus of his national identity often encounters other cultuarl codes which consitute his subjectivity. The aim of this paper is to examine Hata`s life in terms of the influence that gender ideology has on the life of the man who was born Korean, then adopted by Japanese and eventually became an American citizen. I focus on a young Korean girl named K[kuttaeh] in A Gesture Life who in death had the deepest impact on Hata throughout the rest of his life and analyze him as to what forccs made him, consciously or unconsciously, turn his life into a series of gestures. Chang-rae Lee, utilizing the historical fact of the comfort woman, delves into the effects of sin the colonial power has committed upon an individual. Lee shows the reader how, while exhibiting the atrocities of the comfort woman system, the protagonist who belongs to the perpetrator country encounters K, forcibly taken to be a comfort woman, and how it completely changes Hata to reflect upon and reexamine his values and principles ingrained in his mind and conscipusness by society and the nation; and in this case, in particular, gender ideology, which eventually miskeads him to inaction when most needed, and, in consequence, to penance and suffering.

일본계 미국작가 H. 야마모토가 본 일상 속의 신비

이영옥 ( Young Oak Lee ) 성균관대학교 인문과학연구소 2003 人文科學 Vol.33 No.-

이주 여성을 위한 생활한국어 교재 개발 연구

이영옥 ( Lee Young-oak ) 한국언어문화교육학회 2007 언어와 문화 Vol.3 No.2

The aim of this study is considering of the teaching of Korean language for more and more increasing immigrant interracial married women in Korea and to develop an appropriate text book in order to get an effective orientation of Korean language education. The course of Survival Korean for interracial women serve as a stepping-stone for future domestic lives. The objective target of this study is to be specified to reach the ability of their daily conversation in a relatively short-term in the contrast of academic or other vocational application. The international families groups need various programs which could provide basic information that could settle the difficult common daily problems. The immigrant interracial married women are not foreigner anymore. It needs to be considered to give more attention to them living as Korean women and also expected that the appropriate new text book will develop in a short time. (Woosong University)

美國文學과 Dostoevsky : Poe, Warren과의 比較를 중심으로

李英玉 단국대학교 미소연구소 1991 미소연구 Vol.5 No.-

Dostoevsky writes in the same tradition with some of the tragic novelists in America, such as poe, Hawthorne, and Melville in the 19th century and Faulkner and Warren in the 20th century in that his deep concern is with the depravity of human beings. Especially with Poe, whom Dostoevsky admired and introduced to the Russian reader, and Warren, who started writing 80 years later than the Russian novelist, Dostoevsky seems to share a lot of parallel concerns. For example, these three writers produced literature in times of great change and declining faith, and all three were influenced by Christianity which stressed human imperfectibility. In particular, Dostoevsky’s world as depicted in 〈Notes from the Underground〉 and 〈Crime and punishment〉seems to echo Poe’s psychological abnormality, his so-called perverseness. perverseness as Poe defines it is the “overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong’s sake.” It is also interesting to note that Poe’s “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Dostoevsky’s 〈Notes from the underground〉were written at the same time each of their wives was dying. And, in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Dostoevsky’s〈Crime and Punishment〉, the motive of the murder is likewise undear. Raskolnikov finds his reflection in Robert Penn Warren’s jeremiah Beaumont in that both seek justice for its sake, step over the limits of man, and finally realize it was selfish needs that goaded them on. They are in a sense “god-players” who attempt to manipulate individuals in the name of justice. Unlike Poe, Warren and dostoevsky make their heroes find new meanings in life through suffering; Poe’s characters are left in despair, at the end of their rope.

탈식민주의 시각에서 본 Z. 허스톤과 A. 워커

이영옥 한국현대영미소설학회 1997 현대영미소설 Vol.4 No.1

Both Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Walker's The Color Purple try to transcend, to displace, the imposed white-male value systems. In the former, in such characters as Nanny and Jody Starks, we see desperate efforts to stand on their own as blacks and, Janie Crawford, among others, tries to assert herself as a person. In The Color Purple, a group of women characters like Celie also attempt to construct sisterhood and affirm black values over white. At this poinT it will be helpful to compare and examine Hurston and Walker and illustrate the development of race and gender consciousness in order to see to what extent they have been successful in dealing with colonial consciousness. Alice Walker, who appeared an the scene 45 years later than Hurston, through her principal character's experience and self-discovery seems to present a far more illumined sense than Hurston of race, religion, and gender. The differences shown are as follows. First, Walker's heroine is no longer a woman of beauty but a woman of integrity. Men find Hurston's Janie beautiful and attractive as a woman; but Walker's Celie is far from being considered a beauty, Secondly, wife-beating is mare on the agenda in The Color Purple than in Their Eyes. Whereas Hurston's Janie endures Tea Cake's unjustifiable violence, Walker's Sofia and Celie refuse to endure violence as part of their life and challenge their husbands. Thirdly, the women's view of themselves as human beings disseminates from Janie, a single individual woman, to achieve a sisterhood involving Celie, Sofia, Shug, Mary Agnes, thus farming an alliance among women. And lastly, the static symbol of Hurston's pear tree, which represents passivity and immobility, has been replaced by Walker's more active imagery like that of the quilT implying a sense of expansion and extension. However, despite Walker's intention to overcome a colonial consciousness, we cannot say that she has quite overcome the colonialist view of race and gender. For instance, the imagery of the quilt is considered a female imagery despite its artistry; and the fact that Walker's Celie inherits a house from her father and accumulates wealth still reflects the cultural values of a male dominated society. Therefore, though it may be true that Walker advanced Hurston's concepT she has not quite successfully transcended the established concepts of white culture, herself being a cultural and social product of it.

Lily Bart의 境遇 : The House of Mirth 小考 A Study of the Heuse of Mirth

李英玉 한국영어영문학회 1981 영어 영문학 Vol.27 No.1

남북 전쟁과 미국사회의 변화 : Gone with the Wind 와 Absalom 을 중심으로

이영옥 성균관대학교 인문과학연구소 1991 人文科學 Vol.21 No.1

한국 영문학 연구 50 년의 업적과 전망 : 『영어영문학』(1995-1999)에 게재된 논문을 통한 분석

이영옥 한국영어영문학회 2001 영어 영문학 Vol.47 No.2