최정희 문학의 여성성-여성작가로 산다는 것

Abstract

This essay aims to consider what feminity is by a study of Choi, Jung-Hi's works in colonial period. Choi Jung-hi has risen in literary critic's estimation by her feminity. But in her literary early stage, her works including her first work, A fair spy were under a bias towards proletarian literature. For this, her early works were judged to be literature of masculinity. The proletarian characteristic of her early works fade away after she had a prison life during 8 months in connection with a wholesale roundup of all KAPF members. This literary change revealed itself in Piteous autumn's flowers, A haunted house which were published directly after the incident. After that, Choi, Jung-Hi was estimated by a writer of feminity and this feminine characteristic was continued to a through-written story of Vein By following up Choi, Jung-Hi's literary changes from masculinity to feminity, I try to establish the identity of feminity in her works, which was constructed in complex psychological and social interconnections. As a result I know that female characters has self-consciousness of mask Choi, Jung-Hi's works. They repeatedly put on their mask and put off it and by it let know publicly their real appearance behind their mask. Showing a real face has been understood to be connected with essential feminity. But this way to reveal covert and private self becomes the strategy woman doubly hide her real face from the world. Then, it is impossible to distinguish mask(false face) and real face. Therefore feminity in Choi, Jung-Hi's works, prove to be a social construct with a result that disguise herself as a woman. In this perspective, it is not clear that feminity is said to be inherent in women.