서정의 확장과 시(詩)로 쓰는 역사 = The Extension of Lyricism and a History in Goh Jung Hee`s Poems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Goh Jung Hee`s poetic survey of women`s history is an important undertaking that highlighted the place of women in literature and history. Goh`s historical poems are meaningful and significant as a history in that they attempted to reconfigure the history of women; moreover, it is critical that we consider this history within a literary framework as it is reconstructed through the genre of lyrics. This essay defines the aesthetic features and the feminist critique of Goh`s serialized poem, The Stories of Women`s History. Recognizing that critiquing the corruption of power and the pollution of language was related to new historical views, Goh tried to create lyrics for liberation that embodied the concepts of human freedom and equality. To this end, she employed various literary devices; first, Goh demonstrated how the past, the present, and the future converse with one another in history and effectively revealed the diverse stories of women`s lives by way of polyphonous voices and intertextuality. In delivering these stories, Goh employed the epistolary style as well as the narrative strategy for presenting scenes in order to heighten the readers` sense of interconnectedness and to foster their participation. Furthermore, she showed at once the personality and the historicity of her characters as a way to help readers experience a new creative power on the border between history and literature, and between epic and lyric. Ultimately, Goh`s historical poems criticize the male-oriented history at the boundary of history and literature, and by placing value on the principle of life, particularly that of women-mothers, her poems offer a creative outlook and imagination for the future.