김인순 소설의 젠더서사와 디아스포라 정체성 - 『춘향』과 『녹차』를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to intends to define the characteristics of the gender narrative in Kim In-soon’s novels, and discusses how the gender narrative of her novels contains the diasporic identity through the form of female characters. Specifically, in her novels such as Chunhyang and Green Tea, it described that the patriarchal violence structure is repeatedly narrated, which is described as representing gender relations, and furthermore examined that it is being developed through the narrative style of the daughter, which represents to rejection of the father and denial of the mother. The paper focuses on the narrative differences between description of mother and daughter. Kim portrays the mother as sacrificial and subversive images, but the description of the daughter was extremely cold and objective. It is clear that Kim In-soon’s novels can be seen as a kind of introspection and confession of national identity, and also be a process in which Kim tries to reveal and overcome the wounds of her identity through writing. At this point of view, the diasporic position and coordinates of Kim In-soon’s novels can be found in the national subjects, biographical descriptions, female narratives, mother-daughter narratives, which is repeated in her works.