한·중 여성소설의 전쟁 체험과 여성 주체성 형성 - 박완서의 『그 산이 정말 거기 있었을까』와 장졔(张洁)의 『무자(无字)』를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper analyzed the experience of war, the process of change of women's consciousness and the formation of subjectivity in Korean writer Park Wan-seo's “Is the mountain really there” and Chinese writer Zhang-Jie's “No Words” Both works have also looked at the way women actively overcome the crisis, problems, and hardships faced by women during the war period, from women's point of view. The writers belongs to a different country such as Korea and China. However, through the life of women in the war period reflected in both works, we could confirm the universality and commonality in finding the female identity and the impact of war on women's lives. First, because of the experience of war, the patriarchal ideology of women is sometimes strengthened and, on the other hand, divided. In particular, in the case of old-generation women, the ideology of the patriarch can be found to be contradictory to the situation. In addition, the war is putting men on the front line, which makes it difficult to make a living. At this time, the women go out to the public space to solve the problem of living. As social life and workplace in public space, women become economically independent and constitute their own identity as human beings. Finally, the composition of individual growth and subjectivity can be confirmed that the element of experience provided by the society and the consciousness of the subject within the human are developed in response to each other. The two works, Park Wan-seo's “Is the mountain really there” and Chinese writer Zhang-Jie's “No Words” show women, who have experienced various experiences in the wake of the war, overcome the difficulties of life with their own strength and acquire personal independence through economic independence. The works of Park Wan-seo and Zhang-Jie, representative female writers of Korea and China, portrayed the way of exploring their identity while women overcome various hardships even in a difficult environment where they were threatened by war. This is a common aspect of female novels that narrate the war experience, and further, both novels can be evaluated as works that have meaning in terms of feminism.