가부장적 권력의 균열, 그 틈새로 드러난 여성의 목소리 - 조선후기 가사 <나부가>(이정환본)를 중심으

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the avaricious desires within the homes of husbands toward daughters-in-law that appear in the Lee Jeong-hwan version of alternate versions of <Nabuga>, a Gasa work from the late-Joseon era, and the female voices resisting them. Efforts were made to consider and appreciate the real living conditions of those times that are reflected in literary works and their meanings from the viewpoint of challenges to patriarchal authority. According to an analysis based on the patriarchal system, Madam Geumse's features found in <Nabuga> can be understood as a type of 'individual person.' Looking at it from the perspective of women from those times, quite practical and frank protests were added in the Lee Jeong-hwan version. In an aspect that a circumstance of intervention by positions and voice of women considered as 'Nabu (a lazy woman),' not viewpoints of persons who ordain 'lazy women,' is found, differences in alternate versions of <Nabuga> were significant phenomena. Lee Jeong-hwan version <Nabuga> also showed a desire to compensate economic inferiority of the husband's home with Confucian ideologies and overcome that inferiority through the daughter-in-law. The actual desires of members of the husband's home are to possess the property of the maiden home. As honor and 'others' eyes' are important, 'spinning' is very likely an object of expression of the desire. As more and more women have become subjects of economy, actual power may have been transferred to women. It can be said that the uneasy eyes of those men (members of the husband's home) are reflected in <Nabuga>. The real foundations of the society are connected with the cracks in the patriarchal system, such as the problem of putting excessive responsibilities or expectations on women, the problem of seeking to abrogate the economic power of women or their maiden homes and the problem of the way to ordain 'Nabu' from the viewpoint of men should be taken into consideration. The interior lives and voices of women reflected in Gasa literature can be read by approaching literary works from the position of women.