페미니즘은 그 이름이 페미니즘이 아니더라도－양귀자의 소설에 드러난 시스템과 적대의 문제를 중심으로－

Abstract

This article examines the contemporary temporality contained in Yang Gui-ja’s I Wish For What is Forbidden through the trend of the affect of ‘antagonism’. This essentially requires the work of examining the specific chronological points of the artist and her time. This paper analyzes Yang Gui-ja’s first novel Hope and I Wish For What is Forbidden; male terrorists ‘Jin Do-yeon’ who tried to kill the torturer but failed and ‘Kang Min-ju’, who tried to commit symbolic murders ‘Baek Seung-ha’; She was killed by his henchman ‘Hwang Nam-gi’. The indifference of the public and the literature criticism toward Jin Do-yeon reveals the historical reality that torture victims were forgotten, and furthermore, the one side of the system that was strong in the case of state violence. The affect of antagonism was moving towards gender violence. The popular success of I Wish For What is Forbidden was the result of the writer’s astute capture of it. This work exposes that Kang Min-ju was carrying out her gender identity not only in the play but also in real life. Hwang Nam-gi kills Kang Min-ju in that her extraordinaryness was not essential, and that she revealed her desire for change through femininity. On the other hand, the fact that the public system represented by the police unintentionally took part in the murder of Kang Min-ju indicates that sexual differences were incorporated into the system. The fact that sexual differences were working no matter what gender identity a woman performs raises questions about sexual differences that will never be solved. The intense affect aroused at this very point explains the contemporary temporality of this work.