한국현대소설에 형상화된 결혼이주여성

Abstract

Korean novels in the 2000s have the tendency to depict marriagemigrant women as innocent victims of Korean capitalism. Female figures,who are not able to settle down due to infertility, abortion, avoidance ofpregnancy, or pregnancy with sexual violence, cannot but be driven toextreme situations and face with such tragic results as murder, suicideand being killed. This kind of formalization of marriage migrant womenderives from writer’s negative attitudes towards international marriagewhich is carried out by instrumental purpose. Perspectives that areinclined to sympathy and compassion upon marriage migrant womenmake writers create figures as‘ others.’Seo Seong-ran’s 「Paprika」depicts marriage migrant women’sexistential problems via heterogeneous perspectives of Chu Yen, whoresolutely carried out marriage migrant to realize her expectation anddesire for better life, and Jung Il, a typical Korean farmer. Marriage migrant women, who are alienated by different language,residential environment and lifestyle, are the subjects of sexual desire,suffer from the obligation and suppression of reproduction of husband’sfamily, and the work they have to carry out as a housekeeper and worker, hurt badly with Korean people’s discriminatory perspectiveswhich regard them as pitiful women who were sold out by their povertystrickencountry, and then become‘ others.’Suppression, alienation anddiscriminatory perspectives make marriage migrant women anxiousabout their identity and cause many problems for them to settle down inKorea. 「Paprika」grasps and depicts routine violence, marriage migrantwomen suffer from, and then presents their urgent existential problems,thus pointing out the fact that they are not alienated ‘others’butcompanions, we have to live with.