다무라 도시코(田村俊子)의 『생혈(生血)』論 - 눈물과 웃음의 표상 -

Abstract

Toshiko Tamura’s “Ekichi” made use of independence and personality of women, and was on the first issue of a woman literary magazine “Seito”. By her own will, the heroine of this novel, Yuko spent a night with Akichi. On the next morning she stacked into an eye of a gold fish and killed it because it smelled like the man. It was like a revenge on the man who violated her chastity. However, she felt self-hate in it, having been assaulted her body and she could not bear a tangle and division and tearfully expressed the feeling. On the other hand, Akichi did not take it seriously and laughed at the tears of Yuko. It illustrates the reality of the women who did not escape from the ideology of chastity. It does not matter whether they did it on their will or not. The author successfully generalized the psychological appearance between men and women by drawing “Yuko and Akichi” as “a woman and a man”. In addition, the author utilized a bat as a metaphor of the man who absorbed the blood of the young ladies who lost their purity and been controlled selfishly by the man in his show tent. The author also realistically pointed out the social issue on the vulnerable women through the exploitation of the young juveniles. Even though they failed to do so, it can be said that this novel contains the aspiration for escaping from the traditional contradiction. The women in the time of chastity before marriage attempted to have affairs with self-determination and it indicates the change of perception about “sex”.