2000년대 여성시에 나타난 ‘몸’의 전략화 양상 - 김이듬․문혜진의 시를 중심으로

Abstract

This summary addresses the portrayal of the body in women's poems in the 2000s, drawing mainly from the works of Kim Eedeum and Moon Hyejin. To find out how women's bodies are used, and if characteristics of the body exist in recent women's poetry, I read two poets' poems from the perspective of Jean Baudrillard who posits a radical view about the ‘body.’ According to Baudrillard, in post-modern society the body is neither an object of a subject, nor a meaningful figure. It is fabricated, made-up; non-essential goods just being produced and consumed. So, to adjust itself to this world, it has to fabricate itself more or show itself more clearly to attract or threaten other subjects. It seems that Kim Eedeum and Moon Hyejin's poems align with Jean Baudrillard's theory. In their poems the bodies are described as more obscene and transparent to seduce subjects in their imaginative world. They are clearly different from earlier women's poems which emphasized the repressed body. Kim Eedeum depicts the disabled of post-modernism by depicting the body materializing, ghostlike and bisexual. However, she doesn't express their despair directly. Instead, she shows the sense of reality strongly with her indirect method of description and silence. Moon Hyejin destroys the looming modern idol with the body of flesh, blood and bones. This strategy seeks to show how our reality takes us to the place of origin. The paradoxical idea that we are different from animals while knowing we are animals, and the thought that we are noble, puts stress on a society. It is meaningful that their strategy of describing a hopeless, ruined world in quiet tone - but at the same time with fun - evoked the problem of real life both subjectively and objectively.