요산 김정한 문학에 나타난 섹슈얼리티

Abstract

Sexuality is intrinsically social and cultural construction. This paper analyzed sexuality of social minorities described in literature of Kim Jeong Han, focusing around the influence of social power meddling in sexual discourse. First of all, the conventionalwomen are salient existences in the works of Kim Jeong Han, and their meaning gets expanded while they appear in his latter works as well. In the writings of 1930s, conventional women symbolizes traditional concept of then people about conventional women, averting ‘modern women’discourse of the times and negative image of conventional women originated from the discourse. However, in the works of late 1960s, their image is altered to suburb women or lepers with inferior sexuality, dominated by the government or medical power, and castigates modernization project by showing high morality contrast to their petty body. In ‘Surado’, a conventional woman is described as Lady Gaya, who reestablishes traditional beliefs associated with people-oriented Buddhism and overcomes feudalistic aspects of Confucianism. Meanwhile, she is also described as a comfort woman neglected by both Korea and Japan, who is only constructed by a writer in ‘The letter from Okinawa’. Regarding these aspects, patriarchal voice included in Kim Jeong Han’s works contains self-reflecting recognition of nationalism and gender, which was not raised by then female movements.