최승자 시의 애도 주체와 젠더 정치학

Abstract

This research aimed at re－contextualizing the problem of the esthetic specialty and gender politics while analyzing 'the subject of condolence' in Choi, Seung－Ja's early poem. Choi, Seung－Ja's poem reveals the poetic process that becomes a being that 'creates' and 'transmits' the 'born subject', i.e. the existence that the subject of condolence gave birth. At the loss of time with 'you', poetic subject remains in 'absence' in the method of preserving the memory. Memory is recomposed as something that cannot be erased by being carved in body, and the subject of memory stays in the passive position in memory by descending from the position of that 'subjectivation'. Ethics of memory becomes the subject of 'double condolence' as the being that 'cannot but remember' the time carved in body. When the subject of memory is changed to 'the subject that gave birth', dying 'woman－body' reveals the exceptional form of condolence. Condolences on dead woman's body and 'stillborn' being is changed to '(im)possibility' of another production and revolution that 'woman－body' makes. Condolence encounters revolutionary imagination of 'woman－body' beyond death. Potential of 'woman－body' as 'the subject that gives birth' 'transmits' an existence to another one, and the woman subject as the subject of condolence becomes the place of passage offer. Woman subject in Choi, Seung－Ja's early poem is the poetic subject as the 'performer (遂行者)’ of condolence composed in poetic languages. Subject of this condolence refuses to give up the object of love and memory, and regenerate the object in 'me' through the act of ‘giving birth to the object again’ of ‘dead body’. ‘Birth giving subject’ does not define woman category as the ideology of mother, but recomposes the subject of condolence through ‘birth giving act’ itself. If the economics of normal condolence ex－politicizes condolence, Choi, Seung－Ja's poetic subject ruptures institutionalized and authorized gender system and re－politicizes condolence.