1960∼70년대 ‘여류’의 아비투스와 『여류문학전집』의 연합 정치

Abstract

The Korean Women’s Literary Collection by Women Writers’ Association in Korea is an important text that explains the woman literature in 1960∼70’s. This collection shows the works of women that have not been dealt in previous studies and has a significance in that it comprises the works chosen by the woman writers themselves. Habitus, the woman writer’s group in the 1960’s and 70’s, can be explained by specific academic and cultural capital that contributed to gathering them. The alma mater of woman writers during the colonial period influenced even the woman writers of the 1960∼70’s, and the recreation of academic capital centered around a specific woman’s school was an important characteristic of the woman writer’s group. The collection of woman writers shows the distribution structure of the cultural capital that carries over from literary magazine to news magazines, and then to woman’s magazine. This is not a simple imitation of, or a following of the existing literature collections. Rather, The Korean Women’s Literary Collection displays a strategy of taking their position within the literary field by approving the logic of the field. The image of female writers emphasized in the collection is also presented as the image that resists the existing male writers. The Korean Women’s Literary Collection is an achievement that was a result of the advancement of the status of women and the activities of woman writers in 1960’s. In the ‘male-centered literary world,’ an exclusive coalition by women blocked the participation or critical intervention of male writers. Nevertheless, the Korean Women’s Literary Collection can be evaluated as the literary action of woman writer’s group that relativized the viewpoints of existing literary collections.