기획논문: ‘소수자 문학’으로서의 妓女文學 /논평:서지영

Abstract

Kinyo indicates the special professional women who provided the pleasures and entertainments through songs, dances and writings in traditional society. Kinyo is known as a female group who belonged to the minority in both sides of gender and social class and whose consciousness is extremely alienated from their existence. Even though they held the lowest social class, they peformed the important cultual role participating at the court music as a female musician. In addition they could learn the writings and the poetry that were regarded as the cultures of literati and such a cultural education made it possible to form the strong female writer group. for them to become a female writers group So it can be said that the literature of Kinyo was based on their own dilemmas. To analyze the literature of Kinyo, it is necessary to contemplate the circum stance of the Kinyo who were regarded as a representitive minority group and try to categorize the commonnesses and the differences shown in their works.