한산 이씨 『고행록』 연구 — 사대부가 여성 자기 서사의 특징과 가문사적 역사화의 과정 —

Abstract

This study examined the characteristics of the narrative style of the self-life record <Kohaengrok> of Lady Hansan Lee, a woman from a noble family in the 17th century, and the meaning of historicizing the family tradition. <Kohaengrok> is a record written by Lady Hansan Lee, wife of Yu Myeong-cheon, a government official during the reign of King Sukjong, before her 60th birthday. This work records her life, which was full of tragic events, including her husband's three exiles, lifelong illness, and the deaths of her children and daughters-in-law, in a concise and objective narrative manner. Additional records were made and manuscript copies of this <Kohaengrok> were made by the descendants of the Jinju Yu family. In this paper, we focused on the characteristics of the objectified narrative style of <Kohaengrok> and the process of data transmission to understand the nature and characteristics of the text. The narrative style of <Kohaengrok> was considered to have two characteristics: ‘journal-like recording’ and ‘key summary of events and emotions.’ It was analyzed that these characteristics show that Lady Hansan Lee's life narrative called <Kohaengrok> is a systematic self-narrative written well-planned in advance. Meanwhile, we observed that the life records of Mr. Hansan Lee were shared in another sense at the family level. First, after Lady Hansan Lee's death, his descendants added additional records and emphasized the honorable concubine of Lady Lee as Lady Jeong-gyeong. They tried to cheer up the depressed family and bring out solidarity and pride among the family members through Hansan Lee's <Kohaengrok>. Second, during the transcription process of <Kohaengrok>, the existence of female descendants was revealed to the world, their pride in their knowledge and culture was expressed, and a genealogy of ‘women who wrote’ was created. In this way, I looked at the important meaning of <Kohaengrok> as a mediator that reveals the cultural and intellectual capabilities of the women of the family.