이선희 소설에 나타난 식민지 근대의 이중성 연구

Abstract

Lee Sun-hee put a focus on observing life in a more fundamental way, describing internal psychology in details through the daily lives of women and making sensitive responses to the evil practices of modern urbanization. This study examined the ambivalent perceptions of heroines in her novels, whose mainstream was a romantic view. The heroines' romantic views have a sense of orientation to overcome the negative reality and live a true life, which makes women keenly feel the stubbornness of patriarchy and the resulting dual situations due to differences in perceptions between man and woman. Also this study examined in the study was the locality of Gyeongseong as part of explorations into gender consciousness. Locality in modernity focuses on its inherent otherness, minority, difference, and duplicity, which makes relations between gender consciousness and locality closer. In cities where the consumptions and desires of modern capitalism predominate, women are threatened by the real world. Going through modernization fast, the city of “Gyeongseong” is the place where women trying to serve in society further confirm the dual reality. Lee closely looked into the duplicity of colonial modern days by exploring the inner consciousness of her characters and urban spaces, which reflects her sense of identity as a novelist as well as her own perspectives of reacting to the contradictions of colonial modernization in the 1930s.