손소희 소설에서의 4･19의 대안적 재현

Abstract

This paper examines the alternative representations of the April 19 Revolution in the Son So-hee novels that were serialized in the 1960s: Under the Sky Where Love Is(1961), The Season of Love(1962), and The Seasonal Wind(1961–1963). While the mainstream representation of the April 19 Revolution has centered on the male elite, these novels represent the people who were marginalized in the history of the April 19 Revolution as the subjects of the event. First, Under the Sky Where Love Is depicts secondary school students’ struggle to ostracize their teachers after the April 19 Revolution and evaluates the students as the driving force of the post-revolutionary democracy. Second, The Season of Love portrays how poor urban citizens express class resentment and become conscious of being political subjects during the April 19 Revolution. Finally, The Seasonal Wind represents the process of female evening students becoming subjects of the April 19 Revolution while experiencing difficulties as both evening students and women. In addition, these works gender the April 19 Revolution by figuratively representing it in relation to male–female relationships. In Under the Sky Where Love Is, the continuation of the April 19 Revolution is figuratively represented through a love square, and the politician who will lead Korea after the revolution is gendered as female. In The Season of Love and The Seasonal Wind, the resistance of women who have been violated by men is equated with resistance to corrupt political forces; these two novels thus impart a gendered meaning to the April 19 Revolution, namely feminine resistance to a masculine order.