비판적 여성 지성의 형성과 성장: 박순녀 문학을 중심으로

Abstract

Individuals who can secure inner integrity against popular interests and external pressures are essential to the formation of a civil society. But if you look at the modern history leading to liberation, war and modernization, you can see that snobbery has become a survival grammar for Koreans, with life values or goals set in acquiring wealth or power. The April 19 revolution in 1960 led to the formation of a protest forum centered on critical intellectuals, and as it passed through the political dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s, the ideal of ‘authenticity’, which can be called modern people's ethics, captivated Koreans with the qualities of an ideal player. However, society has turned into a battleground for animalized life with the advent of more powerful survivalism as the transition to neo-liberalistic institutions following the 1997 IMF crisis. As economic and political democratization took place after the June 1987 uprising, a decentralized society opened up, but becoming a person with critical intelligence, or cultivator, became an even more difficult problem than in the past. The article suggests that Park Soon-nyeo's literature needs to be re-discussed as she critically visualizes the snobbery of the Korean elite against the backdrop of Korea's modern era of liberation and the Korean War, while urging the formation of an intelligent cultivator. Park Soon-nyeo was also classified as an anti-communist writer for being from north, but a borderline who does not belong anywhere in the South and the North shows writing, given that she is willing to take on a "unsavory life" for freedom.