<何生奇遇傳>과 육체의 서사적 재현

Abstract

The purpose of this study is investigate a narrative representation of the body which is storied in <Hasaengkiujeon>. Here, <Hasaengkiujeon> is a Jeongi novel that was written by Shin Gwang Han in the early period of Joseon. In the novel, a woman experiences having her body just objectified as a means by institutional family and social powers. She is extremely punished into death on behalf of her parents who committed a crime. This makes her real body disorganized. At this time, Hasaeng meets her. Seeing her body objectified, Hasaeng comes to have a sexual desire for her and , in a metonymically, restructures her illusive world and body. He gradually approaches her and finally has a sexual intercourse with her. Carrying ‘geumcheok’, a golden ruler symbolizing her, he returns to the real world and then attempts to communicate with her parents. With her body restructured, the woman returns to the real world, too. Nevertheless, the body still remains somewhat objectified. Despite Hasaeng helped revive their daughter's life, the parents rejects marriage between him and their daughter because he was lower in social status. Then the woman drives herself relentlessly, resisting to her parents and stressing her close relationship with Hasaeng. In this case, the parents reflect on what they did to Hasaeng and finally accept marriage between him and their daughter. This is the very moment when the objectified body of the woman is completely disobjectified. In other words, the women is liberated from institutions or powers as her body, which was subordinate to family or society, comes to belong to Hasaeng who she found herself. Here, the interesting thing is that Hasaeng and the woman, who were discontinuous in existence, come to secure the continuity of their existence through the so-called body disobjectification and finally reach a firm establishment of their own identity. This is the very point of <Hasaengkiujeon>, that is, a narrative representation of the body.