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한국 여성 소설문학과 모성 = The Maternity in Korean Women Novels
저자
김현숙 (이화여대 국어국문학과)
발행기관
이화여자대학교 한국여성연구원(Korean Women's institute Ewha Womans University)
학술지명
권호사항
발행연도
1998
작성언어
Korean
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<Abstract>
People have thought the subject of maternity to be an object which provides all things
in everyday life to the utmost comfort instead of a human being, woman, and an owner
of a subjective ego. That is why in the past studies on women and maternity often
portrayed a feminine image of salvation, or of 'great motherhood'. It has taken a
tremendous amount of time to come to accept that all women do not uniformly
accommodate eminent motherhood that they are subjects of maternity and also that they
have conflicts in their minds.
But until today this problem has been closely woven into the subjective approach of
self-seeking in women. When discussing maternity biologically, maternity is a woman's
exclusive possession which enables them to bear and rear children and the same token
something instinctive. Nonetheless self-begetting could be said to be instinctive when a
woman seeks herself in society instead of in a household. Then what would be
instinctive among maternity and self-begetting for the woman of the past where
household labour was solely a woman's job and for woman today who are expanding
their social activities? all the more if both elements are innate then which is given
priority and is it possible that there could be a difference in preferences in each
different time period?
Unlike other genres of literature, novels are closely related to the real scenes of people's
lives. Although, themes and materials that are bleached in novels happen in real life, it
is still a literary world created by the author. through its language, novels reveal actual
relationships and conflicts, and unlike in poetry, there exists a time, setting, and a plot
in novels which make it the more capable of expressing directly the problems faced in
real life.
The problems concerned by women had started first to surface in Korean modern novels
in the 1920s through Kim, Myung-Soon, Na, Hye-Suk, and Kim, Il-Yup. The concerns
of these novels at the time was strongly influenced by the Korean independence from
the Japanese colonial rule and the socialism behind the emancipation of production
laborer. Since the Independence and the Korean War, women problems that appeared in
women's literary works focus on female imagery and ultimately, closely examine how
the image of women are depicted in imageries of salvation, or of maternity, and
feminists have thought such depictions to be a draw back when it came to searching
for women's subjectivity. With the 1970s as the turning point, differentiating life and
awareness in women was being pointed out as the fundamental issue than of
considering woman as a subject of men. What emerged with determination in the 1980s
was a way of regarding literature through a feminine perspective as women problems
were accumulated into an operation of finding one's identity. In such a case the object
is self-awakening but is discussed as mature women novels.
the piece will deal with maternity problems portrayed in modern Korean novels in
general and reflect upon the different way each period has depicted maternity. Also, it
will look into how the mothers themselves were conscious and disillusioned of their own
maternity, and how the resulting maternal acts are similar or have evolved from those
of the past. But by using these two methods of approach collectively than individually
one will be able to elucidate the periodical changes in the role of maternity and in
maternal consciousness.
The limitations of such an operation would lie in selecting literary works, having to
judge at one's own discretion whether or not the works are able to represent their
respective periods. But the criterion used in selecting the works was whether or not the
literary works contained the features of a feminine literature. Therefore, similar
portrayals were considered to be of the same period.
We have seen Korean women trying to find their own standpoints in between
instinctive self-love and instinctive maternity in literary works from the 1920s which
was the start of Korean modern female literature, through until the 1980s.
The female writers of the 1920s voiced their existence and gave up maternity by their
own conclusion. They are now regarded in the forefront of history although they were
not able to establish their own standpoints then.
In the 1930s, works show women choosing maternity instead of subjectivity which is an
expression of their self-love keeping in pace with Korean's social phenomena.
Coming into the 1950s educated women and their subjective thinking are revealed in
each fields but was not able to bring forth contendments of 'subjectivity' nor
'maternity'. But educated women tend to realize their own desires by imitating
masculine order.
Maternity in the 1970s has opinions as the society is materialized. Men on the other had
are diminutive and absent. Women fill their actual absence with material/money and
mentally substitutes them with sons.
Another change in the late 1970s is because of the unchanging maternal duties and
men's views on women, women themselves are divided into the ego in themselves or
into an onlooker and travel between reality and consciousness. But, although maternity
is not a duty it cannot be abandoned either.
In the women literature of the 1980s in one aspect it is revealed that women were
coming to the forefront of history through acquiring knowledge and making their own
judgements. In such a process there is a destruction of space, resulting in the
abandoning of maternal duties, filling for divorces on their own, and becomes financially
and conscious-wise independent. On the other hand, the literary phenomena that occurs
through the authors show that maternity is not a given duty nor an enforced instinct
but something women chooses independently and rescues life therefore it is even
revealed to the extent of instinctive maternity and instinctive self-love to appear as one.
Women literature is changing even now. With an extended content of women's stand
points and tendencies in one aspect and another is clarifying more the reality women
are situated in a more female point of view and having efforts to develop this with
practical movements. What should not be dismissed in such aspects is that the guarding
of maternity is not a problem solely for women. Women need to be supported in reality
so they can become an indispensable existence in the social structure and at least
become an independent being from the onlooker's position. In some other works women
want to be diminish and moves into confined areas. Therefore maternity becoming not
much of an importance. Studies on such tendencies will push back for another chance.
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