젊고 아픈/미친 여자들과 자기 이론으로서의 글쓰기 – 여성 거식증에 관한 일인칭 서사를 중심으로

Abstract

In recent years, self-authors, in which a person looks back on his or her life from the past to the present, focusing on a specific point or event, have become a cultural dominant species. In particular, self-authors about disease and madness are rapidly increasing to the extent that young, sick/crazy women are emerging as authors. The self-authorship phenomenon can be said to be a willful expression that female minorities will no longer be wary of patriarchy or be intimidated by normality. Women’s self-exposure is because feminist knowledge has become popularized and universal, and feminist ‘social capital’ has been formed, opening a hole in the illusion of ‘perfect woman’. The self-authorship phenomenon is a cultural experiment that forms an unnormative female identity by staging one’s own life. Based on this awareness of the problem, this article analyzes the stories of anorexia among self-authors of sick/mad young women. 『This is also my life: 15 years with an eating disorder』 and Park Ji-ni’s 『Eating Practice』 require attention because disease/madness is not simply evidence of deviation from normality, but because it proves the feminist radical of self-authors by complexly revealing gender norms and female conflicts.