‘여인의 일생’과 가족사 소설의 현대적 변용 연구 ― ｢파친코｣, ｢알로하, 나의 엄마들｣, ｢밝은 밤｣을 중심으로 ―

초록

This article argues that the characteristics of female writers’ novels, represented by Pachinko, Aloha My Mothers, and Bright Night, lie in the narrative of the maternal family and the transformation of “a woman’s life.” All of these novels focus on the “life of a mother” who survived the colonial period and the Korean War and maintained her family in the absence of her husband. The core narrative common to these novels is that a typical Joseon woman is located at the very center of modern history, not as an outsider or as an eyewitness, and that we exist today thanks on them. In this study, recent novels of which these three are representative are argued to have inherited the existing tradition of “a woman’s life” and the narrative of women’s ordeals. In addition, Judith Butler’s theory of subjugation and subject establishment was applied to determine in what way they differ from earlier family history novels. Pachinko (Lee Min-jin), Aloha My Mothers (Lee Geum-i), and Bright Night (Choi Eun-young) are all family narratives that show the process of subordination and the subjectification of the power structure. These novels are matrilineal family history novels that inherited and developed the existing family history novels so that a woman, not a male patriarch, is at the center of the family history. This fact is significant in that these novels represent the successors to traditional narratives and hold out the possibility of a new development that has been noted as one of the new trends in recent long novels.

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