This paper is aimed at investigating the representation system and reality based reading aspects of literature girl in 1960's. This study can approach Literature girl as the representation reflected in the ruling ideology by analyzing the discourse an...
This paper is aimed at investigating the representation system and reality based reading aspects of literature girl in 1960's. This study can approach Literature girl as the representation reflected in the ruling ideology by analyzing the discourse and the detailed reality of literature girl who correspond to or resist the discourse through reading aspects as ‘social act’. This study comes clean about the identity of Literature girl by verifying points of crack between the representation and the reality.
This paper primarily was examined the background and properties of the representation of ‘literature girl’ in Korean colonial period and the postwar period. In Korean colonial period, the women reading was encouraged in the way to progress the 'modern' subject. However, the women reading was connected to opinions that limit women's thoughts and actions by combining the women discourses. Thus, the literature girl is replaced the negative signifie titled ‘romance’ and ‘love’ and is existed as a signifie of immature women. Also, the literature girl's reading, the reading the novels was treated the female student's reading that is separated from the specialized society. Meanwhile, Juveniles in 1950's signified ‘nation’ and ‘student’ so that Literature girls had the universal identity that forms the ‘Juveniles’ category through ‘literature’.
The literature girl in 1960's was stationed as statement meaning ‘Femineity’ so that girls were needed ‘culture’ as a woman in home and the reading as the practice. The literature girl was performed a function with a representation in order to standardize to ‘post wise mother and good wife’. Also, this paper examined the process that ruling discourses bring girls over to the ruling ideology by revealing that the representation of literature girl was situated at the opposite of the bad girl. However, the literature girl also existed as the dangerous girl. The girl was constantly the object of vigilance and instruction because girls who deviate normative girl representation were dealt with the problem of ‘sensitivity’ and were defined girl's sensibility as girl's inner nature. The girl's sensibility was used the dual standard to evaluate girl's literature so that the literature girl existed the representation of shortfall not to get out of system of the rule subject.
This paper also examined literature girls as reality who conform to and deviate from the representation system by studying the reading aspects of girl in 1960's. Girls was accepting ‘public’ culture as a domain of the culture to compete against and complement the culture reading but the ‘public’ culture like popular novel and movie was denigrated by reason of antipodes of ‘culture’ reading. Also girls were internalizing the virginity discourse through ‘romantic love’ in novels and were realizing by the fantasy their desires in the environment not to realize the real desire at the same time.
Girls in 1960's were getting senses ‘existence’ by existentialism literature. However the existentialism was accepted to ‘nihil’ coincident with a gendered anxiety of girl's inner side. Girls suffered disruption about ego of women and had reached crossroad where they has to decide between ‘home’ or ‘society’. Literature girls in 1960's show the identity of girls at a crossroad between home and society. After becoming the writer, women had no option but to hold the way of ‘women’ writer. Therefore ‘women’ literature and ‘women’ writers was the identity projected structure of dual reality that could live as women in the home and the writer at the same time.