1990년대 여성시에 나타난 ‘웃음’의 정치성

Abstract

This article aims to categorize the aspects of "laugh" that appear in women's poetry in the 1990s into "laughs of convergence," "laughs of conversion," and "laughs of emitting," and to examine the politics contained in them. There is no hierarchy in each type of laughter, and each has the possibility of overlapping each other. Until now, the politics of poetic language representing laughter has been discussed only in cases showing superficial politics. However, when looking at women's poetry after the 1990s, it is necessary to further expand the horizon of laughter and politics. Accordingly, in this paper, we would like to expand and examine the type of laughter and the political effects accordingly. The speech of a poetic subject with an attitude of irony seems empty in poems showing "the laughter of convergence," and the politics of laughter seems to be minimized. However, the converging emotion of the poetic subject evokes the violence of reality in that it reveals the voice of the female subject exposed to daily violence. In poems that show "the laughter of conversion," the poetic subject foretells loss and reveals the emotion of conversion through "the laughter." The laughter of conversion creates room for various readings. In poems that show "the laughter of the emitting," the poetic subject appears to resist the violence that dominated the community with "the laughter." The laughter at this time is maximized with superficial politics.