젠더정치학의 전복에 대한 남성들의 불안 또는 공포 –김영하의 「흡혈귀」를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is read 'Vampire', a short novel of Kim Young-ha, as a metaphorical novel in causing a crack in gender norms and value of late 20C. In other words, that gender norms were interpreted as expressing anxiety or fear of man to the conditions of the era overturned late 20C. From inner story of a frame narrative, there is a woman in her twenties called Kim Huiyeon who considers a divorce in one year of married life because of just incongruent value of marriage and life style. This woman has enhanced the status of women late 20C, that is, figures that reflect the rapid changes in gender politics. She is reflected the phases of times of increasing in the divorce rate which is charged from women and strengthening the women's rights of the late 20C. Today's women are simply living a strengthened lifestyle and charging a divorce to men by reason of just incongruent life style and cultural tastes. This work, Kim Huiyeon of inner story, making a husband vampire who are different from her life style and cultural value could indicate the anxiety and fear of men from women of new era charging a divorce by commentary of outside narrator. In other words, this novel expresses an appearance of threatening women causing the crack of the superior male gender politics makes the anxiety and fear of men through a frame narrative. His wife wanted to share her all life with him and was fretful to him for it. However, his wife considers her husband a vampire working all day in his room and a monster threatening subject of women. Because she can't share her directional life with such a husband together. On the other hand, a husband could feel his wife as a very alarming presence like a vampire because he had to write work from morning till night as a full time author. Currently, Korea has increased divorce rate without a parallel in history. It also increased the divorce rate of charging from women. According to the National Statistics Office, the first reason of divorce is the difference in personality (46.7%). This work says that the differnces of life style and cultural value is the difference in personal as well. Anyway today's women are simply living a strengthened lifestyle and charging a divorce to men by reason of just incongruent life style and cultural tastes. The male narrator of outside story considers Kim Huiyeon a ‘vampire’ because of threat of women. Frame narrative of this work makes a reflection about the gender of the opposite gender perspective in times of political change.