갱신되는 텍스트, 전환하는 주체- 백신애 문학의 개작과 작가적 정체성

Abstract

Baek Sin-Ae’s views and her works have not been examined enough from the perspective of a writer. It is partly because of a lack of resources and party because of the tradition of confining female writers into a designated subordinate position in literature, without comprehensively critiquing their works or examining the female writer’s identity. This dissertation attempts to reconsider the identity of Baek Sin-Ae as a writer. examining her four revised texts: GGeoraei (「꺼래이」), Colored Bridge (「채색교」), Eating Matters (「식인(食因」), and Abject Poverty (「적빈」). These revised texts highlight the perspectives of female protagonists who play active roles in the realization of the theme of the text. In the revised endings of Eating Matters and Abject Poverty, emphasis is shifted from everyday poverty and violence and to the aesthetic effect of "epiphany," focusing on the existence of miserable women. Meanwhile, GGeoraei, originally a first-person novel whose main protagonist is an intellectual woman, is revised into a third-person novel whose protagonist is a drifting person named "Soon-i" in Siberia. Through this revision, this text reveals the self-reflection of a socialist intellectual woman and the writer’s consciousness as a messenger who connects and shows solidarity with others.