‘쓰기-주체-되기’의 정치성

Abstract

This study examines women’s writing, which is part of discursive practice. The writing encompasses all forms of writing activities by those who are not allowed to speak out but struggle to make their voices heard as a subject. Rewriting the words dominated by men’s view, women can pioneer a space for free speech. For this reason, writing activity by women should be encouraged and emphasized in the society dominated by gender inequality. This paper explores outside of academic world in which performativity of the writing subjects is executed, specifically, Shinyeoseong, a Korean magazine in the 1920s. In this magazine, women were hated and belittled by men who became subjects in the modern society. Women, however, did not sit on their hands and stand up against such view by writing articles full of parody and irony. Such confrontations are witnessed on the internet these days. Women’s confession of painful stories on social media, for example, is changed into disclosure to the public, thereby generating discourses on who is to blame for dating abuse and sexual assault. Women’s writing activities on online communities such as Megalia also give women opportunities to contemplate what to do in dealing with gender inequality issues. Thus, the writing-subjects come to be recognized when their voices, which have been mute in history of gender inequality, begin to be heard by writing, and what they can do is as follows: first, the writing-subjects criticize those with greater power in relationship by making use of irony and parody in writing; second, such critiques spark heated discussions, thereby changing the writings into conversations with listeners/readers of the critiques. The change to conversation produced by performativity of writing-subjects, in the end, generates open discourse.