This thesis has the purpose of definitely studying novels of Jeon-gyeonglin with a view of female Bildungsroman under the premise that 'the growth of woman' may be an important trace for understanding the world of works of the writer.
The female Bil...
This thesis has the purpose of definitely studying novels of Jeon-gyeonglin with a view of female Bildungsroman under the premise that 'the growth of woman' may be an important trace for understanding the world of works of the writer.
The female Bildungsroman of Jeon-gyeonglin in which a procedure to find the identity of woman character is a core content, seem to be the 'one woman's single growth story' ranged from a girl in the puerility to a woman in the prime of life. Some women characters in each works encounter the identity crisis regularly patterned at an interval of specific period in their life. Dealing with theses crisis situations, the women character's growth procedures are appeared in some forms of a spiral in which as making around trip between the two poles of the existence narrative and growth narrative respectively, characters painfully search for their identities.
In chapter III, through 「landscape of Gagetjip with courtyard」and 『While the melting of black sugar」,the growth procedure of a girl in the puerility and in the threshold of grown-up was studied. Among Jeon-gyeonlin's novels, some works including a heroine of this period have a common feature describing the experiences which heroines as the other against the paternalism got from the growth, as the main plot. In this chapter, women characters have been confronted by the trouble of 'abnormal' growth since the early days of their lives. However some growth troubles afflicting the heroins act as the motif which highly incite the aspiration to find their own identities by escaping from oedipus's world excluding them.
In chapter IV some works in which a married woman in thirties/ forties is main character were studied. The heroines of「the philosophy of wife's quarters 」and 「a woman driving a goat」have some experiences of the identity crisis in an awkward home constructed with the marriage. The story that a woman in thirties/ forties , an mature adult in society, has confronted the identity crisis again after her marriage and strives to overcome such a crisis also displays unique feature of female Bildungsroman. main characters in chapter IV realized their own existence method in 'inside their home' or even escape to 'outside their home' in order to cope with the crisis situation. 「the philosophy of wife's quarters」shows the former confronting method. This work exhibits the self-consciousness of a heroine who has the will to exist in the home remaining her own sincerity even by infringing a taboo. And 「a woman driving a goat」shows the latter confronting method. Yunmiso, the heroine of this novel, realized the impossibility of true growth in the 'inside', the oedipus structure which restricted her to the other, so she escapes from that and find the 'outside', the world not encoded in the logic of dominant regime.
These novels which show the self-consciousness of woman who can't endure herself leaved alone in the insipid days thus darlingly decides 'to be an witch', also have a limitation of as extreme as self-lockout and self-exclusiveness. In spite of such a limitation, these novels have some meanings in that they successively raise the question opposed to the colonization carved on the body of woman by madness against the reason, illusion against the reality, and reveal the contradiction of the whole structure of oedipus which socially and sexually colonize a woman.
In chapter V, the growth of woman character who establishes the other identity different from previous one in quality after she experienced critical madness and wandering is appeared. Some women in chapter V do not look for any more 'the ideal place', but remain in usual space of life and set up the anti-oedipus space to coexist and communicate with others in a respite due to the cracked oedipus structure.「an angel remains here 1」shows the growth of woman character who overcomes the dichotomy opposition, 'a wicked woman or a woman saint', and recovers the relation between the others and unlimited difference. And 『The house of mother』exhibits the procedure in which the mother who was escaped from the home injuring her identity establishes the 'house constructed on the absolutely different morals and in that house mother and her daughter accept and embrace the mutual difference and constitute the family newly formed.
The female Bildungsroman of Jeon-gyeonglin has a limitation in that it often deals with only inner growths of main characters who can not practice the power of change in reality. But the crack of real world shown through the inner growth of woman characters, is also the starting point of the whole change in real world. Consequently, the growth of woman as subject exhibited in the female Bildungsroman of Jeon-gyeonglin has the meaning in that it is connected with the procedure of sexual and social post-colonization proceeding from the status of marginal others to the subject of change.