김훈 소설에 나타난 몸담론 -「화장」을 중심으로 = Body discourse in Kim Hoon's short story - focusing on 「 Hwajang 」

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper analyzes body discourse which is represented in Kim Hoon's short story, 「Hwajang」(「화장」). 「Hwajang」 is a work which requires readers to consider the four inevitable phases of life : birth, old age, sickness, and death. Man is born, gets old, gets sick and dies. A young woman, Choo Eunjoo(추은주), me (the narrator), suffering from prostatitis, and my wife (the narrator's wife), who passed away from a brain tumor; each character stands respectively for youth, old age, and death. All of us spend our youthful days like ‘Choo Eunjoo’(추은주), but as time goes by, get old like 'me', and in the end, die of incurable diseases like my 'wife'.
Through lots of names of body parts and various expressions involving the body, 「Hwajang」 makes a panorama and foregrounds the problem with the four phases of life. The work deals with problems with the body from start to finish. This work covers a variety of topics like the inevitable phases of a life, a body's independence and a body being acted by others, ethical taboos, medicalization of death, capitalized bodies, commercialized genders, genders and points of view, etc.
The short story, 「Hwajang」(「화장」) includes abstruse philosophical considerations on a human being's birth, old age, sickness, and death for a short discourse time, four days, by arranging binary oppositions closely such as body and mind, youth and being old, life and death, makeup and cremation, male and female, self and others, one's eyes and objects that are stared. I think Kim Hoon wants to tell through his work that body, youth, and life surpass mind, old age, and death in postmodern eras.

참고문헌 (Reference)

• 1 김훈, "화장" 문학사상 2004
• 2 송명희, "현대소설의 이론과 분석" 푸른사상 2006
• 3 송명희, "젠더와 권력, 그리고 몸" 푸른사상 2007
• 4 Desmond Morris, "접촉" 지성사 1994
• 5 Susanna D. Walters, "이미지와 현실 사이의 여성들" 또하나의문화 1999
• 6 Peter Brooks, "육체와 예술" 문학과지성사 2000
• 7 한국여성철학회, "여성의 몸에 관한 철학적 성찰" 철학과현실사 2000
• 8 Katie Conboy, "여성의 몸, 어떻게 읽을 것인가?" 한울 2001
• 9 김은실, "여성의 몸, 몸의 문화정치학" 또하나의문화 2008
• 10 Lynda M. Glennon, "여성과 이원론" 이대출판부 1990
• 11 김진아, "몸주체와 세계, in: 여성의 몸" 창비 2005
• 12 영남대학교 인문과학연구소, "몸의 인문학적 조명" 월인 2005
• 13 Cris Shilling, "몸의 사회학" 나남출판 1999
• 14 홍덕선, "몸과 문화" 성균관대학교출판부 2009
• 15 성광수, "몸과 몸짓문화의 리얼리티" 소명출판 2003
• 16 David Le Breton, "근대성과 육체의 정치학" 동문선 2003