1950년대 박경리 소설의 ‘근대’와 ‘여성’ - 전쟁미망인과 지식인 여성을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This thesis is an attempt to examine the modern and woman of Park kyung-ni in 1950s. I take issue with the name of the war widows. The women characters on the shorts of Park Kyung-ni lost their husband by the korean war. The war left korea devastated. War widows became heads of household. At the same time, they are forced to wage battle against korean society. The paternalistic system of korean society attack the women as violence. And on the shorts the korean war creates all of the conflicts. But the war is not the root cause. Their conflicts have persisted for a long time regardless of the war. In the shorts the women characters are already educated people before the korean war. As the new woman in 1920～1930s, they realized their own identity. Traditionally woman is not the subject and the same in the modern of korea. They were under restraint by masculine view point. In 1950s, the paternalistic system of korean society is the project at the national level. And women(intellectual or not) are subordinate to men. It is the conflict in the shorts of Park' fundamental cause. The violence of the paternalistic system converts intellectual woman to 'woman-sexual body' and 'woman-sexual purity'. They are poverty people. Meanwhile, not poverty, intellectual woman is addicted to the love. It is not that she indulges in the sexual desires but that she is addicted to the romantic love intellectually. It is an emblem of 'woman(intellectual)-sexuality'. They demand their own new name.