한국 전후 여성의 문학-교양과 펄 벅의 위치

Abstract

This article seeks to find out how ‘Pearl Buck’ was related with Korean women-literature-culture in the 1960s, and how the position of ‘Pearl Buck’ was related with the formation of post Korean war female culture. We also look at how Pearl Buck's literature was related to the women-literature-culture category at that time through re-reading the criticism about her literary world. The writing about accompanying Pearl Buck, her speech contained in <Ryeowon>, which is published around the time of Pearl Buck's visit to Korea in 1960, shows that Pearl Buck presented ideal femininity and motherhood as a requirement for the world citizens. This can be seen as a strategy to cultivate women in underdeveloped countries in the position of imperial woman. Meanwhile, Pearl Buck's literary theory and criticism about Pearl Buck contributed to the formation of women-literature-culture by defining "popularity" and "locality" as the uniqueness of Pearl Buck's novels. In conclusion, Pearl Buck was in charge of shaping the literary/cultural culture of female readers by re-positioning "Asia" and defining Korean and East Asian female statues as desirable. Among the binary opposition like West/East, apeure girl/modernized good mother and wife, pursuit of romantic love or sexuality/mothering, Pearl Buck became the reference of the culturalization of Korean women by evaluating the latter's category.