20세기 초 자탄가에 재현된 친정 방문과 자기표현의 의미

Abstract

This study focuses on works that deal with the subject of visiting parents' homes among Jatanga, were created in the early 20th century, from the 1900s to the 1930s. In the works, the process of ‘growing up, marriage, living in-laws’ is recited according to Jatanga customs, and then the life leading up to a visiting one’s parents is recreated. Accordingly, the first half of the work is generally composed of ‘growth process and married life’, and is standardized content, taking on the nature of praise. Nevertheless, the emotional loneliness and hardship of living as a married woman are revealed, and this is encoded and expressed through a sense of the season or symbolic imagery. The second half of the work consists of a visit to one's parents' home, and the main content is meeting and playing with parents, siblings, relatives, and friends. The content that is treated with great importance is play. Writers enjoy pleasant entertainment and celebrate freedom. Self-esteem is also confirmed through emotional communication and family awareness. In this way, organizing the work sequentially according to the author's own life cycle and placing the visit to the parents' home within it calls for looking at the meaning of the visit to the parents' home from the perspective of the entire life. The second half of the work is placed in opposition to the first half, suggesting the weight of hardships and vices hidden beneath the coded scenery of the first half. In this respect, the reenactment aspect of the second half is placed in close connection with the previous life, and contains the meaning of actively expressing the desires that have been suppressed.