한탄강화형 <여자자탄가>에서 ‘여자 신세’를 보는 문제의식과 의미

Abstract

The lamentation-enhanced <Women’s Self-Grief Song> is a work that highlights the characteristics of reinforcing lamentation of one's life based on a sense of comparison with men. The following characteristic aspects of the song can be noted. First of all, the critical mind on women's life is subdivided into specific keywords. In the underlying data, the central point of lamenting the women's status is becoming embodied such as happiness/misfortune (<Yojatan>), knowledge/ignorance and usefulness/uselessness (<Jangsatan> and <Gwangsatanira>), and human fun and human value (<Yoja Tansikga> and <Yojagara>). And this attempt to logicalize was not highlighted in the previous Kyubang Gasa. Attention to specific points of envy of males led to introspection on self-identity, and along with the diversification of audience settings, they were actively attempting to externally express their self-identity. Next, the underlying data strengthen the proportion of lamentation, but break away from the act of vaguely lamenting ‘women’s status.’ The direction of lamentation for each work was diverse, and active changes in the naming of the works were also confirmed. This article is meant to carefully examine the meaning of each type's characteristic aspects, and is meaningful because it more specifically examines “the virtue of comprehensiveness in lamenting women's fate,” as suggested in previous work.