박정윤 소설의 소녀표상과 그로테스크 반미학- 『프린세스 바리』, 『목공소녀』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Park Jeong-yun is a writer from Gangreung that won the Honbul Literary Prize for her Princess Bari. Although she has published several collections of novels, there is no research on her and her works. Building a unique, strange, and different literary world from the perspectives of locality and feminism, her novels focus on girl characters. There is still patriarchy left in the coast, and girls are exposed to danger and risk under the capital-centric anti-democratic neo-liberalist system but look at the given reality in a composed and cold-hearted way. Being born in a family with nine daughters, the writer followed her grandmother to Dano festivals and was called Bari. Her autobiographical experiences are reflected in her works. In the Gangreung area that was conservative and patriarchal, the preference for sons deprived daughters of the right to be born. In her works, girls are depicted to be grotesque, ugly, strange, and different distant from the patriarchal discourse and aesthetics instead of typical images of pure and innocent women. Exposed to abandonment, neglect, and risk during childhood, girls are oriented toward anti-family and ant-growth and learn the logic of living a life through the solidarity of their peers. Female others represented by dolls, monsters, animals, and ghosts put immature girls both physically and mentally in the worst situation. Resisting the patriarchal aesthetics, the writer reports on the reality of preference for sons and anti-feminism through unpleasant and ugly anti-aesthetics and reveals the suppressive and violent environment of many Baris effectively. Making a start within the literary magnetic field and driving force of the 21st century, Park has created an original and unconventional creative world that is characterized by the representation of girls and grotesque anti-aesthetics and resistant to patriarchy effectively.