‘자궁’의 시적 상상력과 여성주체의 전개양상 - 1980년대 이후 한국여성시를 중심으로

Abstract

The womb is the most powerful part of the body that defines womenkind. It is a divine part of the body in which a birth of a new life takes place. But at the same time as it is seen as the means of reproduction, woman’s body is tend to be exploited as an object. Because of such dispute, in contemporary Korean feminism poetry womb is interpreted in newly ways. First, womb in the female feminism poetry is the origin of human species and at the same time it is represented as the cave of death and birth. A vivid healthy wave of the amniotic fluid and noble abject revealed how womb becomes the ground of life and origin of species. Second, abortion and still birth metamorphose the ruined dystopia of our world. Polluted earth, stillbirth babies, aborted womb all symbolizes the violence and agony of modern times. Abortion in feminism poetry implies the spirit of resistance in today’s patriarchal system and describes how womb cannot become a comfortable and cozy place of the new birth. Thirdly, womb writes down its own herstory with the appearance of a new womb. Mothers and their daughters form their female union through the ideology of womb. Feminim poetry denies the value of menstruation as a way of reproduction, but redefines it as a completion with menopause. Women’s womb is the most powerful space that come within the purview of social norms of sexuality and cultural identity, and at the same time it is the place where personal’s experience and desire is most vividly acted. Feminism poetry could be designated as the scene where new herstory is recorded as it rediscovers and reevaluates the history of womb in women’s independent perspective.