스토리텔링 치료의 관점에서 본 <덴동어미화전가>와 그 현대적 수용 사례 연구

Abstract

The fact that a certain character of the past is interpellated at present means that the present need of the cultural creator and consumers has begun to write and speak under the character's mask. Those who live in Republic of Korea, so-called 'suicide republic', in the 21st century interpellate Dendong's mama of a classic, Dengdong's mama Hwajeonga, as an excellent storyteller who uses the language of sympathy and healing freely. The words of Dendong's mama are not only her personal words but also the words of many subaltern women who keep silence or are forced to be silenced. To listen to the words of subaltern women, it is necessary to understand the background and to read the unspoken stories. A story of Dendong's mama is a novel that expands the time and space of Dengdong's mama Hwajeonga from the preparatory process of Hwajeon Nori(women's Spring picnic making pan-fried rice cake with flower petals) to the time of remembrance. As the author of it, I tried to make the most of the aesthetic features and literary therapeutic value of the original text and at the same time to reveal that ironically the words of Dendong's mama who encouraged a young widow character to remain faithful to her deceased husband may turn out to expose the fictitiousness of the patriarchal frame which confines the fate of a woman to marriage or husband and to suggest a challenge to other possibilities of life such as academic and social advancement. Dendong’s mama is a repeatedly newly born human who gets out of the universal identity and unified centricity defined by her own age among the classical female characters. A character like a dendong’s mama is an attribute of 'another post-human'.