프로문학의 자기반성과 여성의 타자화

Abstract

This article is designed under the assumption that proletarian literature has consistent influences from that time on after the breakup of the KAPF. The influences mean the expression of self reflection on the organization-centered, class-centered literature. This self reflection also means the procedure of rethinking and re-scrutinizing contemporary literary theories which are based on those of western thoughts through the concrete reality of the time. What has to be reconfirmed is that the reality is over-determined by not only class consciousness of labor class and peasant but also various others based on the development of modern capitalism and the condition of colonialism. From this point of view, this article reconstruct main proletarian works focusing on the problematique of 'feminity.' Lee Ki-young's Homeland and Han Seol-ya's Twilight, which are very popular among both proletarian camp and common reader groups, idealize female characters and then appropriate them ideologically as a guarantee of superiority of the proletariat. In this process, female characters are otherized, and this kind of otherization prevents the works from configurating the reality. These works get dualized in the process of representing concreteness of the reality and drawing the class perspective out. Thus, the otherization of feminity leads to the contradiction and crack of the narrative, whose bad effect remains still after the KAPF acting as an obstacle of thinking the violence of the imperialism and colonial reality. Consequently, Under the more violent imperialist rule, the otherization of feminity means the methodology of revealing the cracks and deadlock of the contemporary literature and suturing its limitations at the same time.