한말숙 소설에 나타난 여성 하위주체성 연구: <별빛 속의 계절>, <Q호텔>을 중심으로

Abstract

Through the discourse of decolonization, this paper examined the post-war society and reality shown in <The Season in star Light> and <Q Hotel>, the lives and subalternism of women colonized and otherized in them. Post-war society of Korean, it took the form of a state of decolonization independent from Japanese imperialism, but it can be seen as a situation of external colonization of a new colony or a recolonial in that it was in a new subordinate position due to large-scale military and economic aid from the United States. At the same time, internal colonization of oppression and exploitation among members of the state took place simultaneously in the process of achieving social integration in conjunction with a strong patriarchal system to overcome the devastation of war and rebuild the nation's politics, economy, culture, and ethics. At this time, the subject of multi- layered colonization at home and abroad by empires, countries, and men is mainly ‘women’ in Han Mal-sook's works. Women show a strong aspect as subaltern in terms of subordination to the hegemony of the ruling class or denial of access. In the early literature of Han Mal-sook, the female subalterns are largely divided into ethically and sexually targeted women and poor women alienated from the discriminatory economic structure. The former is especially embodied through ‘Yanggongju’, who is called the most disturbing women in <The Season in the star Light>, and due to the ethical boundaries of the national reconstruction period and the sexual transfer of the U.S. military, Yanggongju becomes an ‘unspeakable subject’ in her situation. Yanggongju, who experienced objectification in front of the exclusivity of no one to listen to their circumstances, is voluntarily or forcibly silent, but also mocks the look of the colonial subject through a ‘gaze’, ‘cold look’. The latter of the female subaltern shows a ‘colonization of consciousness’ that accepts ‘American things’ and ‘American economic resources’ as rescuers to solve economic difficulties at <Q Hotel>. Although the fantasy of post-poverty seems to be realized through unconditional fantasy and longing, the reality that the future and happiness were eventually destroyed by the ‘American thing,’ the object of worship, is revealed to have not been the savior using the irony technique. This also suggests the ambivalence of the US aid economy. As such, Han Mal-sook sees the post-war as a situation of oppression that no one listens to and tries to hear the voices of subalterns, and reveals the violence and irrationality of colonial discourse through the image of female subalterns who undergo multi-layered colonization by empires, states, and men. By examining women's reactions and reflections on various power acts of the time, this paper confirmed that Han Mal-sook has been sensitive to exploration and diagnosis with great interest in society and reality, and provides serious and multi- layered knowledge of women and society, women and the times.