This dissertation examines novels reflecting the experience of the Korean War with a view to defining the historical forms of subjectivity which emerged as a result of the experience of war. As long as the regime of division remains, the Korean War co...
This dissertation examines novels reflecting the experience of the Korean War with a view to defining the historical forms of subjectivity which emerged as a result of the experience of war. As long as the regime of division remains, the Korean War could be said to constitute the existential basis which effects the lives of all Koreans in some way. Yet the Korean War does not hold the same meaning for all people; rather the meaning of the war is intimately related to individual posi- tionalities.
Through the differences in these individual positions towards the war, we can make some suppositions about position and status within the division regime, and about the world and historical views held by peo- ple. As a result literary texts(encloding novel, drama, film, the text for educatuon) should be seen as a treasure trove of finely detailed records of the different positions towards and experiences of the war.
An extremely broad range of Korean literary works fictionalize the war experience, this dissertation focuses on how the narrative of the Hi- story of (women's) crucible is formed and reproduced, and on what ways narrative either expands or secedes from this pattern. The Hi-story of (women's) crucible represented the Nation in the figure of women’s life, which decade and damaged by Others. For a long time the narrative of this type is the stereotype of the Korean national Hi-story. Through this process Korean people imagined Nation as the figure of the crucible.