박완서 소설의 대중성 연구-1980년대 여성문제 소설 다시 읽기

Abstract

This thesis intends to re-read the origin of popularity in Park Wanseo’s feminism novels in 1980’s and investigates her novel’s in the aspect of ‘writing of revenge’. Park Wanseo’s novels in 1980’s, The Standing Woman, The Start of Living Day, Are You Still Dreaming?, have some similar types. The immature woman becomes awaken through romantic love and marriage. The dichotomy of between evil and good is exposed in patriarchal system and individual, male and female. The snobbery of the bourgeoisie is exposed by outspoken, critical languages. In ‘the escape from domesticity, female’s maturity’, I noticed that the females internalize the ideology of domesticity, but at the same time they use the various strategies to struggle about passive and oppressive femininity. They experience of ‘anti-maturity’ because of the marriage, but accomplish the alternative maturity through the motherhood beyond monogamy, a room of their owns, and free sexuality. The dichotomy of between evil and good is exposed in patriarchal system and individual, male and female. The comparison between the immoral male or oppressive husband’s family and the good or self-conscious female borrowed the mode of popular novel such as moral polarization, obvious evil deed, persecution about good people. So her novels bring the effect of empathy to the female readers because those novels have emotional strength and moral lesson at the same time. The ‘narrative strategy of humiliation and rage, writing of revenge’ means the author’s critical thought about the snobbery of the bourgeoisie, duplicity of intellectuals, violence of patriarchy reveals through the straightforward and sensational writing style. The repetitive use of humiliation, misery and rage in Park Wanseo’s feminism novels are a kind of writing of revenge. In conclusion, Park Wanseo’s feminism novels in 1980’s accomplish the ethics which exposes her own social class, and make the self-conscious and moral female as the independent being. So her novels are evaluated as the return of enlightenment and modern ethics.