기지촌 공동체의 재발견 안일순의 『뺏벌』을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the literary imagery and meaning of korean women in military camp town through bbaet beol written by Ahn Il-Sun in 1995. The problem of South Korea’s military camp town continued after the liberation in 1945 when the US military government was stationed in Korea and from this period on, there has been an attempt to embody literally military camp town in Korea’s history of literature. In the military camp town’s novels before 1990s, we can see that the women of military camp town were described as sexually fallen beings or victims of the sex industry because of the economic and social environment. Especially, the case of Yunkeumyi made military camp town’s problem emerge as a social problem in Korean society but still the women in military camp town were showed as national women raped by the US imperialism. However, Ahn Il-Sun’s bbaet beol effectively portrays the various aspects of life of military camp town’s women by well describing the multilayer of economic, racial and sexual hierarchies on the life of military camp town’s women. We can also find out that the women in military camp town got out of the national community and formed their own community by partaking the experience of psychological and physical suffering in the course of transforming their bodies into sexual goods. By mourning the deaths of women in military camp towns, they revealed “being together” as a community without position deviating from ideological community rules.