공선옥 소설의 여성성 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This research is to find out the sense of feminity in novels written by Kong Seon-ok. Feminism has various views. I consider undervalued women’s role or motherhood as a new form of women’s identity different from men and I think those values should be revaluated. Based on that position, I will lay out a theory that the idea of restored and reconfigured characteristics would necessarily magnified to correct distorted male-dominated society. I think I can look more deeply at the sense of femininity in novels of Kong Seon-ok. Her novels suggests women’s power including the principle of catholicity toward the weak who are marginalized and moral of giving care to other as an alternative to overcome the oppression from male-dominated society.

Based on this view, in the second chapter, I will focus on women’s features shown as sense of otherness in novels. The eye-catching point in her novels is to show women, the marginalized class, as a feature o mother in broken family with the underlying story on wounded souls because of the historical issue, the 1980 Gwangju democratic uprising. As a stranger, women, or mother struggled to live a mother whole healing their tragic wound in male-dominated society. Their struggled life and harsh reality they live shows the violence of male-dominated world. At the same time, novels show how those women recognize and overcome the reality in a feminine way.
In novels, the writer describes recognition of reality that othernize women’s body and disclose the reality located in the middle of objectification and otherness on women because in a male-dominated society, women’s body is not the thing belongs to women but to men, the main agent of recognition and expression. The book [For body] shows the reality of female bodies which has been suppressed and censored through the escape of female character denying being othernized. In the book [a flower of our lives], wandering and escaping of female character who confesses her desire to want to have own name is a way to express resistance against male-dominated thoughts. I will analyze those factors.

In the third chapter, I'm planning to motherhood and relationship between mother and daughter shown in the process of pursuing women's identity. In her novels, motherhood has its originality because motherhood is explained with the voice of mothers themselves. Those mothers are the one who already has escaped from the boundary, home. In other words, they have already gotten away from passive lives which endure oppression from husbands. But they are struggling with, pursuing and provoking conflicts about their own identity as a women because the life they choose as a woman is opposed to the life that our society force them to live as mothers. She is a wild other who pursue a desire as a women and at the same time a merciful mother who can't abandon her won babies. So she repeats to escape with a sense of guilty and come back.
She consistently raise questions about her situation where she has to give up a live as a women to be a mother and eventually establish her own identity in the process of attempting escape. Through those steps, She shows the positive symbol of feminity which successfully acquires 'moral of caring' instead of just accepting her motherhood ideology by being surrendered to patriarchy in accordance with just choosing be a mother. The writer describes motherhood by embracing other stranger's kids and the role expands to embrace the othernized weak like marginalized people, the disable, immigrant women or immigrant workers and the role stands out as a positive characteristic that can cure wounds from a male-dominated suppressive social structure.
On the other hands, most of female characters in books are mother and daughter. Daughters reflects her experience when they hate their mother's young desire and the reality they face in patriarchic society, they reach to understanding their mother and embrace them and finally make peace with their mother. And by showing the conflicts between mother and daughter and their male counterparts, husband and father, the writer shows the hope and possibility of matriarchal society without adult male symbolized husband/father. In books like [No one is waiting] or [ young buddha] the writer shows women's choice seeing long-dominated patriarchic male as a disparate other. And in [wandering tree], [dreadful friendship], [I can see those blue waves], the writer open a new relationship between a mother and a daughter.
It seems to restore a female-oriented family history and set up new identity as a human being by creating new family order not based on blood tie.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• < 목 차 >
• Ⅰ. 서론 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성과 목적 1
• 2. 연구범위 및 연구 방법 12
• Ⅱ.여성의 타자성과 극복 양상 26
• 1. 타자성의 인식과 여성적 가치를 통한 극복 26
• 2. 몸에 대한 타자화의 거부 44
• Ⅲ. 모성성의 추구와 여성 계보학의 형성 60
• 1. 모성의 수용과 확장 60
• 2. 모녀관계의 모색 82
• Ⅳ. 결론 99
• 참고 문헌 ................................................................................................... 104
• 초록(Abstract)............................................................................................................ 108