『아낌없이 주는 두올리티』와 『영점에 선 여자』를 통해 본 제3세계 여성의 페미니즘 연구

Abstract

This paper explores the possibility of finding intersections of commonness and differences between Nawal al-Sadawi who is a prominent Egyption writer, Woman at Point Zero and Mahasweta Devi who is Indian writer in postcolonial period, Douloti the Bountiful. In Woman at Point Zero, the heroine as a prostitute is a model of Arab women who are oppressed and exploited by the male authority,driven to despair. The heroine's anger and disgust toward men extend to society which keeps the patriarchal values. She tries to obtain freedom and to converse the power relations by controlling her body. The act of killing one of men constitutes the climax of her struggle to gain control over herself. In Douloti the Bountiful, Douloti, the story of a tribal woman sold into bonded labor as a prostitute to a wealthy landowner, also relies on a central metaphor: as the tubercular Douloti collapses dead on the way to a hospital. She happens to fall on a concrete map of India, into which the Indian flag will be planted in celebration of Independence Day. Unlike women in developed countries, women of the third world have been suffering from patriarchal system. Also they are suffering from double torture of lower class and the patriarchal society. These works are similar in terms of facing death by sacrificing their lives in the world of men's power aside from commonness that the main character in this work is the prostitute of the third world like India and Egypt. However, these two works appear to describe the inner-self of the individual prostitute, but these works tell us the power of the male who is in authority among huge social groups that is existing behind that.