구술서사 속 여성 배설물 모티프에 대한 젠더비평적 독해

Abstract

This study is intended to analyze a narrative and a performance of the oral-narratives having a motif of females’ excreta in view of gender-critics. In the mythological sense, the excreta of goddess is result of producing the universe. In some mythological texts, the excreta of goddess represents the symbol of the fertility of the land. In the process of demythologization, the sacred images of goddess have been changed to uncanny things which bring uncomfortable, strange, and uneasy feelings and unaccountable fear. In the desanctified and secularized stories females’ excreta became to be the objects of ridicule and disgust. But in some oral narratives females’ excreta are turned into keys to solve problems of family or community. In these stories they are considered as the beneficial objects. This study presents analysis of the images connected with a feminine sexuality and a feminine body in oral-narratives. As a result of the analysis, we can ascertain that the effects of narrative and performance of these stories produce the gendered subject by regulating the gendered body and sexuality. The images of females’ excreta reveals the attitudes of the negation and the disgust of feminine sexuality in some oral narratives. It represents female subject's neurosis and melancholy, for it means that she denies her own sexuality herself. In some oral narratives images of females’ excreta have concerned the gender-political power regulating a feminine sexuality and a feminine body. They are acted as the discipline gender-discourse of feminine sexuality in those cases. Females is participating on their own initiations to be gender-subjects through performing these kinds of oral-narratives. At this time the performances of oral-narratives makes the effects of producing ‘gendered’ body, and thus the narratives work out as the ‘gendered’-discourse. But the performances of these oral-narratives is sometimes to produce results of flighting from the strategy of ‘gendered’ at the same time.