김승희와 최승자 시의 모성성 연구 —‘화자-아이’의 관계를 중심으로—

Abstract

This paper analyzes the poems of Kim Seunghee and Choi Seungja based on the concepts of femininity and maternity. Maternity has helped to form a discourse that defines women as “mother,” and has been implied as a characteristic that women should naturally possess. In this paper, I tried to approach “maternity” in terms of its components. In other words, maternity occurs in the “relationship” between the subject, which is assumed to be the mother or the guardian, and another subject, the child. Kim Seunghee’s Sun Mass and Choi Seungja’s Love of This Age and Pleasant Diary reveal the aspect of the relationship of this “speaker-child.” Child is born as a “I-subject” in Kim Seunghee’s poem, which is by breaking out fantasy by the speaker, and the speaker also recognizes the oppressed self through the child and goes to the “rebirth of the subject.” Compared with the relationship between the speaker and the child in Kim Seunghee’s poem is revealed as “the same subject as me,” Choi Seungja’s poem makes up a relationship with “others who are not different.” Choi Seungja’s poetry is connected with his child through “death.” Choi Seungja’s “child” is not a stranger but a speaker herself, and is depicted as a subject who kills and revives each other. This type of maternity reading is significant in that it allows the woman as a more complex subject to speak while dismantling the femininity as sacrifice and holiness.