유부녀의 매춘 모티프를 통해 본 하층여성주체의 양상

Abstract

In this study I have looked over [Potatoes(감자)] and [Mulberry(뽕)] which were published in 1925. Those works were motivated by the prostitutions of the women in the lower classes. A lot of authors began to write about the poverty people's lives before and after that time. Buknyuh and Anhyupgyp who appear as the main characters in these stories, sell themselves for money even though they are all married. Their husbands are old, incapable, and irresponsible. They choose the prostitutions by chance in the progress of solving their poverty in place of men. Therefore, they have economical competence and become a modern subjectivity. Dual measurements are applied to the act of prostitution in the discrimination between man and women. People criticize the act of selling women for money, but they are generous for the act of man's paying money for prostitution. Here are some man-centered and very modernized cultures working. This kind of situation is the specific feature that the materialized circumstances for the sexual desire are arising from the progress of acting the prostitutions. On the other hand, odd inversions happen in the course of prostitutions. A woman who was the object of sexual desires can be a subject for physical passions. Sometimes she chooses an object to sell herself for money. Or she is angry about changing the sexual objects. They became the subject, that is Bukyuh as a subject of resistence, and Annhyupgyp as a subject of economics. Through the prostitution, the characters with distinctive personalities are imaged. Tough Buknyuh, and form and dignified Annhyupgyp, they became the symbols of subjective lower ranked women. The women's subjecthood was formed while modernized men-centered mind was broken up and the overturn of consciousness was arisen. The specific character of withdrawing of modernization is the disorganization of the core, that is rationality. It's inevitable for women to became the subjects when incompetent masculinists didn't play a main role in colonized Chosun. When women chose the prostitutions for the survival from poverty and the men-centered subject was dissolved, women themselves became the main body of the society. Like this, the subjective forming of women in a subordinate position was done in this period of 1925.