가부장제를 횡단하는 농촌 노년 여성의 시 쓰기 연구 －칠곡 ‘할매 시인’을 중심으로－

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of poetry writing for those who have embodied the patriarchal system by paying attention to the achievements of literacy education targeting rural elderly women. In particular, by paying attention to writing as self-utterance through language acquisition by elderly women in rural society, it was judged that it would be possible to think about the politics of enjoying literature as cultural capital along with consideration on patriarchy. In the case of the majority of the elderly women of the basic class, they have not acquired the written language to carry out literacy, and thus have been separated from cultural capital. In addition, as they experienced a role change from the scapegoat of the patriarchal family ideology to sympathizer and perpetrator, their uniqueness as an independent subject was also castrated. In this regard, this study analyzed the meaning of self-utterance of elderly women in rural areas, targeting achievements of Korean language education and poetry writing in <Neulbaeum School> implemented as a ‘humanities city development project’ by Chilgok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. This can be understood as a process of realizing the necessity and urgency of reading-writing literacy by constructing a new geographic map of the performance of ‘writing’ rather than genre aesthetics. The subject aspects and significance of these poems are, first, in cracking cultural capital and diagnosing the possibility of life poetry, and second, in recovering the subject by expressing one’s life history and emotions through writing. Lastly, it is that the elderly themselves discover the importance of coexistence in the elderly along with the awareness of the role of small village communities. The emergence of such a ‘poetry-writing grandmother’ provides a direction for rural communities and a set of old age discourses in response to social aging. In other words, the birth of a new subject of old age has a great significance in that it shapes the old age discourse more abundantly in preparation for the aging society. Therefore, their poetic achievements should not be simply illuminated in terms of literature or literacy education, but should be considered from the perspective of gerontology and humanities of gerontology, and their status as a sustainable living humanities centering on the village community should be established.