여성문인 관계망의 불/가능성-한국근현대예술사 구술채록연구 및 관계망조사를 토대로

Abstract

This article studies the im/possibility of women writers’s networks based on The Oral History Project and related studies on Korean Modern and Contemporary Arts. ARCO has been continuing this Oral History Project and related studies for nearly 20 years. Through this project, the oral history of 10 women writers was recorded and written. They are Cho Kyung-hee, Park Soon-nyeo, Han Mal-sook, Kim Nam-jo, Song Won-hee, Lee Jung-ho, Park Wan-seo, Chu Eun-hee, Kim Hu-ran, and Jeong Yeon-hee. These 10 women writers refer to a total of 500 artists in a total of 1,300 episodes, of which 360 are men and 140 are women. In general, most women writers belonged to the art field and art organizations in the professional network(職緣), and incidentally, to the academic network(學緣) centered on women’s universities. Contrary to the bias that they would be strongly involved in private networks, they did not refer to local networks(地緣) and blood networks(血緣), etc. In the end, the network of women writers is mainly revealed in the overly loose category of the art field, and the variety of their networks can only be known by their oral statements. The cases of Park Soon-nyeo and Jeong Yeon-hee raise the issue of gender and sexuality that intervene in The Oral History Project and related studies. First of all, Park Soon-nyeo describes a lot of women writers in Cultural Villages, not centered on The Writers’ Association. This means that women writers went beyond the division of the Public-Private Field and shared everyday life as ordinary people and activities as writers. On the other hand, Jeong Yeon-hee does not sufficiently describe women writers other than some episodes related to the activities of related writers’ organizations. Instead, she criticizes the harsh scandal surrounding herself, a female college student who became the winner of the annual spring literary contest. It means that the issue of sexuality surrounding young women writers can be political at the same time. These two women writers ask for ways to complement the broad category of the art field, where women writers are mainly involved.