박화성의 단편소설 연구

Abstract

Park, Hwa-sung is a writer who lived in the dismal Japanese colonial period and expressed her strong resistance as an intellect against the oppressive colonialism. So, the purpose of this study is to understand Park, Hwa-sung’s literature mind from woman consciousness in her literary works. Also, research on her literary significance includes 12 short novels. She was born in Mok-Po 1904 and grew in easy circumstances. She grew up ‘modern women’ under the influence of her father’s support. But she distrusted her father in a growth period because her father was remarried. Naturally she had an interest for the independent woman. Differences with her father, led her to be inspired by her mother to become a writer. Before leaving abroad to study in Japan, she met Jo, un at Young-Kwang private middle school and had a literature class with him. At that time she debuts with Chuseok Jeonya(The Night Before 『Chuseok Holiday』). Park, Hwa-sung achieved a tendency for literature while studying in Japan by her brother and her husband Kim Guk-Jin asa socialist. After she returned home from Japan writing for novels and divorced her husband, remarried with Chun Dog-Kun was criticised as it is a comgination with the bourgeois by literature world. She gave up writing for a while, until Korea liberated from Japan after that she wrote novel 『Pumpkin』. Her literary works after the Korean War show the popularity than before the Japanese colonial times then she passed away in 1988. She was famous and important writer who started woman’s literary in the literary world. Park, Hwa-sung was recognised for women’s conscious through her many works so, she represents for modern women in the 1920～30’s. The female characters of the novels were classified three groups by their consciousness : there was the female intellectuals, women laborer of urban, poor women of village. The female intellectuals in the novel has showed recognition of reality and indictment women ‘problem moreover tried to suggest the female intellectuals’ role and the female image of the day. Women laborers were oppressed by the Japanese colonial rule. Regions, cities and towns were changed to working camps. In human treatment by the Japanese resulted in sexual exploitation and the loss cultural identity. Poor women’s lives was reflected by tragic lives and agony of uprooted wanders by the Japanese colonial policies. But women of this character symbolized strong women consciousness. On a basis of the study, Park, Hwa-sung’s writing mind based on view of Modernism and women’s consciousness. Her works describe exactly the situation under Japanese colonial. Park, Hwa-sung has a important role in Feminism and Woman consciousness in the literary world.