나도향의 가족로망스와 ‘어머니의 아들’되기 - 나도향의 「젊은이의 시절」과 「별을 안거든 울지나 말 걸」을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper aims to specify romanticism of Na Do-hyang through familial romance. In the precedent studies, romanticism of Na Do-hyang has been defined in various manners as escape from reality, awareness of reality, resistance to reality and a possibility of conceiving new reality. Centered on the theory of familial romance by Marthe Robert, the study defines romanticism as ‘fantasy based on the desire for recreating reality’ and identifies that romanticism of Na Do-hyang involves an active attribute to recreate reality beyond awareness of and resistance to reality. Hence, the research pays attention to familial romance in the works by Na Do-hyang. Familial romance of Na Do-hyang is different from that of the masculine by Freud in that the son refuses a place of the father to the end. In addition, it is distinctive in that the son practices the values of the ‘mother’ rather than possessing the ‘mother’. It may be examined via appropriation of the concept ‘son of mother’ by Adrienne Rich. The reason why is that ‘son of mother’ and son of Na Do-hyang have something in common with each other, who do not inherit the patriarchal law referred to as the place of father and find a new way for men which is based on the feminine values. The new way the son of Na Do-hyang found is to appropriate and inherit the ‘values of mother’. It may be demonstrated via the processes where the son gives attention to the place of mother as a new place to completely deny the paternal place(Chap. 2) and is born again as the ‘son of mother’ by practicing the maternal values(Chap.3). In conclusion, familial romance of Na Do-hyang shows the desire of the son who denies reality of father and recreates that of mother- ‘like’ modern. Of course, emphasis is put on the denial of ‘father’ so it has male-centered limitations. Nevertheless, such an approach has significance in that it can extend a methodology for reading romanticism of Na Do-hyang to reinvention of the modern, escaping from the limitations of the denial of reality. The modernity of Na Do-hyang can be captured more accurately when read based on such romanticism.