크로노토프(chronotope)와 여성적 글쓰기로『시녀이야기』(The Handmaid's Tale) 읽기

Abstract

Focusing on Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of chronotope, this study analyzed women's oppression and resistance in The Handmaid's Tale as subversive narratives of feminine writing. Chronotope is a theory that emphasizes the importance of human relationships, with the interconvergence of time and space acting as the basis for understanding the nature of events and actions. Bakhtin shows the seven elements of Rabelais(human body, clothing, food, beverage, sex and death, excretion) in various ways of chronotope in the combination of time and space. In the text, this was compared with the story of the handmaid and presented Atwood's world of chronotope. In particular, it shows the reproduction of chronotope-like history in which the movement of time and space develops into memory and recollection, and the past and present are described as a future story. In addition, The Handmaid's Tale is a novel in which writing and speaking act as an important narrative structure. The story of a woman in the totalitarian state of Gilead was not released until 200 years later, veiled. As the hidden images of them are revealed through the actually veiled maids, and the duality of masks and Hymen is used as a strategy for feminine writing, more stories are hidden in the space between. Historical notes, the epilogue of the novel, showed that Offred's handmaid story was in fact masculine writing reconstructed by a historian. Atwood shows feminine writing that subverts masculine writing through chronotope to expose the still oppressed woman in the virtual world of the future.