생애담에서 드러나는 ‘정체성 재현’의 양상과 기제 - 옛 역촌에 거주하는 반가 출신 여성의 경험과 자기인식을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Narratives of lifetime experiences are those which are composed by speakers based on their past memories. Paying attention to the characteristics of lifetime experience narratives, this study is intended to find the identity which a woman from a noble family tried to compose and represent actively in the course of making narratives of her lifetime experiences. This study also has investigated the base of self-awareness from the woman, and the characteristics of the social networks which were created based on her identity and self-awareness. The study has found that the factual aspects of identity representation which the woman shows in the course of making narratives of her lifetime experiences are concrete and substantial. These aspects are shown through the distinction of her birth place, her past social status, her economic affluence, her intellectual experiences such as rituals, everyday lives and learning that she went through as a landlady of a noble family, and her experience of leadership in other places. Such identity representation is highlighted when the superiority of her past social and economic status is emphasized. In particular, when an outsider (the researcher of this study) is involved, her past experience stands out intensively. This is because the narrator from a noble family reorganizes her lifetime experiences in her own way, and makes use of such elements as principal bases. The narrator demonstrates her past valid social status and the difference resulting from the status in the course of making narratives of her lifetime experience. This act of the narrator expresses her will to intensify her self-awareness more strongly at this moment, and reflects the intention of reestablishing her own identity distinguishable from those of others based on her past.