문자의 전성시대 －염상섭의 에 『모란꽃 필 때』대한 일 고찰－

Abstract

Turning attention to the episodes of When a Peony Blooms that feature Munja, with her Japanese name, proves productive. Munja’s character, is related not only to the female characters of Yum’s other texts such as Chun-gyung from Two Minds, Jeong Maria from Love and Crime, and Hyoja from “Nam Chung-seo”, but also to Kaneko Humiko, the wife of anarchist Park Yeol. The narrator’s attitude to her reveals Yum Sang-seop’s male-centric and patriarchal national consciousness of homogeneity, and through calling attention to the social and national positions of females, Munja provides a literary and historical paradigm of female name’s meaning, along with Yeongja, Bongja, and Sukja of A Wild Goose’s Voice and Dressing up of Women. Inshort, Munja expresses historically the colonial male nation’s fear of the participation of women in public affairs and ethnic hybridity to the highest degree at a moment when the full-scale mobilization of women had not yet begun.