Here we examine the vision and attributes of the female body as represented in modern women’s poetry, focusing on the texts of Lee Seonyoung and Heo Sugyeong. To understand these depictions and the poets’ ultimate goal, the works are read within the context of post-modern feminist Helene Cixous’ suggested framework for women’s writing. This feminine writing includes both plurality of subject and plurality of meaning, acknowledging the nature of others where it differs from our own. This kind of trend is found in the poems of Lee Seonyoung and Heo Sugyeong. The works portray a new image of women with a bisexual femininity, enabling an interpretation of women’s bodies previously ignored by the patriarchy. In Lee Seonyoung’s poems women are depicted as lifeless things and an unseen narrator speaks for them. This apparatus rebuffs the traditional phallo-centric pattern by showing a bisexual individual revealed vividly through sliding, dissolving description which allows diverse readings. Heo depicts a feminine identity, which bestows the womb to nature and acknowledges its fruit. This acceptance evokes sexuality. While the sexual union in love-making leads to the birth a child, in her poems she emphasizes the greater importance of the relationship itself. Playful language, sentence destruction, and descriptions of intimacy imply a world where each individual lives harmoniously. The poets’ writings focus on the differences of female form from male to present to us the opportunity for a society relieved of its emphasis on problematic, ego-driven, one sided male-centered values.
한국언어문학교육학회 [The Institute of Education Korean Language and Literature]
설립연도
1993
분야
인문학>한국어와문학
소개
한국언어문학교육학회는 국어국문학과 국어교육 분야의 연구에 힘써 해당 분야의 학문적 발전과 민족문화 창달에 이바지함을 목적으로 한다. 또한 국어국문학 및 국어교육 분야에 대한 학술 연구 발표회를 개최하고 학회지를 발간하는 등 여러 학술적 사업을 개최하는 것을 그 주된 사업으로 하고 있다.
간행물
간행물명
한어문교육 [The Education of Korean Language and Literature]