최근 한국문학 연구의 젠더적 관점들

Abstract

This article is a review of three recently published Korean literature study books. The three books to be dealt with here resonate with the feminist and gender criticism trends of the cultural and academic society, which is loosely collectively referred to as the so-called “feminist reboot.”; the method and perspective of each author’s approach to the object are based on the various locations of the intellectual galaxy of feminism and gender criticism. The Geography of Gender in Modern Korean Literature by Son Yu-Kyung, attempts to draw cognitive map as an aesthetic practice that evokes the gender norms of the structure of feeling of Korean literature determined through the mutual penetration of sentences and reality. Jang Young-eun’s Transforming Women aims to fill the vacancy in the history of Korean literature through “right reading” of female intellectuals’ own narratives, taking into account the social and customary pressures that pioneering female intellectuals face in their respective positions in the early and mid-20th century. Heo Yun’s latest work, The Scripts of Masculinity, criticizes hegemony’s dominant fiction of normal masculinity, while at the same time performing thinking that begins with articulation through active visualization of plural (non)masculinities.