식민지기 박화성 소설에서의 교차성과 주체성

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the intersecting dynamics of class, gender, and national contradictions in Hwa-seong Park's novels during the colonial period and to highlight the emphasis on ‘practical subjectivity’ as a means of overcoming these contradictions. Chapter 2 confirms that Hwa-seong Park’s novels from the 1930s explicitly critique the colonial Korean reality, where imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy intersect. This reality also overlaps with the conditions of ‘peripheral’ regions that do not share the historical development trajectories of advanced capitalist nations. Chapter 3 examines the pronounced tendency in Hwa-seong Park's novels to emphasize the concept of subjectivity as a force that enables a revolutionary ‘leap’ in the peripheral context of Korea. In fact, the main characters in Hwa-seong Park's novels stress action and practice, regardless of their social origin or class background. The colonial Korean reality, intertwined with a tendency to emphasize subjectivity, draws various subjects of exploitation and oppression toward a moment of ‘human liberation.’ Women's liberation, specifically their efforts to overcome gender-based contradictions, is closely linked to this moment. In this regard, Chapter 4 discusses ‘labor’ and ‘literature’ as pathways toward social transformation and human emancipation. Through an analysis of The Northern Dawn (북국의 여명), the study reveals how female characters in Hwa-seong Park's novels are redefined as laboring individuals who achieve political awakening through literary qualities and acts of writing. Hwa-seong Park's works from this period serve as vital literary and sociocultural assets, revealing how her unique position as a ‘female socialist writer in the colony’ connects the pursuit of ‘human liberation,’ a universal value, the intersecting goals of class, national, and gender liberation.