주체와 비체 사이에서 식민화된 여성육체 －강경애의 『인간문제』, 「소금」, 「마약」을 중심으로－

Abstract

In Kang Kyung-ae's novel, you can find a violent manifestation of an indeterminate physical existence that is not included in symbolism. In these novels, the raw physicality that proves itself only with the body can be said to be the seal of Kang Kyung-ae's novel. This study reveals the meaning of the material manifestation of such an impersonal female body found in Kang Kyung-ae's novel, and how the materiality of this reproduction acquires political meaning in a different level from the existing interpretation. The specific life experiences of female characters in Kang Kyung-ae's novels are so intense and material that they exist at the point where any idea or logic becomes powerless. Their female bodies are rather indeterminate and thoroughly material enough to break the boundaries of such consciousness and ideas already given. The method of evidence of this indeterminate female body's violent self-existence is the unique personality of Kang Kyung-ae's novel. You can call it ‘the materiality of reproduction’. The material existence of these female sub-subjects, who prove themselves only by body and body, is an epic hole that evokes the strange unfamiliarity of Kang Kyung-ae's novel, and becomes a curious narrative driving force that moves other beings that are difficult to be included in the framework of the ruling discourse.