‘어머니’ 表象 중심 한국 전쟁서사 마스터플롯의 變容과 擴張 – 金源一 『마당깊은 집』을 중심으로

Abstract

By focusing on the mythological masterplot re-read from a female-gendered perspective, this study analyzes works based on the Korean war period masterplot, centered around the representation of the mother. The analysis of Kim Won-il’s The House with a Deep Yard indicates that the criteria of this masterplot can be applied to narratives that go beyond the category of female protagonists or authors. This study examines how the Korean War masterplot centered around the representation of the mother is also an element consistently found in the present “boy’s becoming a patriarch” narrative. In this case, the “becoming of a male child” is embodied in “becoming a mother” within the relationship with the mother. In The House with a Deep Yard, the mother figure appears as a test for the boy to learn the discipline of the “symbolic father.” This mother figure, regardless of whether it is the boy’s biological mother, a neighbor, or a family member, represents an extended mother figure who exemplifies the world in which the ideology of the time operates and provides survival instructions as a patriarch. Therefore, it is appropriate to interpret The House with a Deep Yard as a narrative of “becoming the kind of child the mother patriarch wants.” Focusing on the mythological master plot reread from a female gendered perspective, this study attempts to analyses the works based on the foundation of the ‘mother representation-centred Korean war period master plot.’ The analysis of Kim Won-il’s The House with a Deep Yard shows that the criteria of this ‘masterplot’ can be applied to narratives that go beyond the category of female protagonists or female authors.