만주망명 가사 <간운사> 연구

Abstract

<Ganwunsa> is a work of gasa that has been introduced its text but almost no other parts known today. However, the contents of the work have many clues to trace the author. Therefore, the author of the work is known now as Mrs. Kim Woo-rak and her life has been known. Kim Woo-rak was born to a prestigious family in Andong and married to a man of a prestigious family in Andong as well. She was a younger sister of independent independence activist Kim Dae-rak and was a wife of Lee Sang-ryong who served as the first prime minister of the Provisional Government of Korea. After the Korea-Japan Annexation (in 1910), all of her family exiled to Manchuria to devote in independent movement. <Ganwunsa> is the gasa that she wrote while longed for her brothers and sisters remained in her homeland at a time she spent 4 years in Manchuria. The author wrote gasa and enjoyed reading them while living in Manchuria. In her <Ganwunsa>, she reminisced important phases of her life (growing → marriage → separation → exile → separation) and confessed how she felt in her memory. She mobilized the customary phrases and writing method of gasa for noble class women to express her emotion and sentiment of the time. The author lamented the position of women who have to long for brothers and sisters all their lives. While doing so, she fulfilled "the custom for woman to be submissive to her husband" and "three things woman has to comply with" in her life. The perception of women for <Ganwunsa> was within the boundary of the traditional perception of women. But it displays the expansion of external links from the traditional perception of women to the modern perception of women while present at the site of the independence movement. The work environment of <Ganwunsa> was within the modern life in exile to Manchuria and independence movement. But the author focused on expressing her ordinary life and reminiscence that she did not directly portray the life as an independent activist and consciousness in independence struggle. She was a traditional woman born in the middle of the 19th century, but she had to accept the shocking modern society in losing the national sovereignty as an important phase of her life. By doing so, she gave up the tradition and accepted the modern times with several indications.