현대시조에 나타난 ‘할머니’ 양상 연구 -『우리시대 현대시조 100인선』을 중심으로

Abstract

The advent of an aged society has promoted social awareness and discourses on topics of aging. This article will examine the grandmother that takes shape in the modern-sijo genre. There is a controversy regarding modern sijo as the literary style of grandfathers; this is a reason for focusing on the representation of grandmother'. In addition, the limitations of modern fictional creators have also strengthened these beliefs. Meanwhile, grandmothers have been regarded as enemies of young women, in addition to being orderly followers. They have contributed to consolidating male power within the family structure. Further, as a mother until her death, the grandmother act as a mother and a substitute, and she becomes passive in her own aging process, becoming ghost-like and being deprived of her human rights in society. This study examines the text of "100 modern sijos in our era", which was bound in the form of an anthology by the author; among the works are poems created and published in the 1900s. We extracted 80 pieces from the anthology that use the image of a grandmother as their material and subject. We then classified the patterns surrounding the grandmothers that were created by these works. First, the grandmother is classified as a historical scapegoat; second, she represents; aging and finite sensibility; and third, her role in the family structure of the patriarchy is highlighted. In this way, we assert that the grandmother can-not understand that she is not read as a subjective existence. The limitations of the grandmother figure that are articulated and discovered when focusing on her rather than looking through the male-centered Sijo literary creators are disturbing. These interpretations suggest that there are unfair and unequal coordinates that grandmothers occupied in our society. It is time to reconsider the status of grandmothers who are so deprived of their voices that they can-not even confront their old age.