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This article examines the way in which Korean literary works from the 2000s represent women who deviate from the normative family structure, and argues that these representations signal the potential of 2000s Korean literature to serve as a bridge to the feminist literary turn of the 2010s. Through an analysis of Talk’omhan na ŭi tosi (My sweet city, 2006), Chŭlgŏun na ŭi chip (Home sweet home, 2007), and Pyŏl i ch’ongch’ong han ŏndŏk (A starry hill, 2007), this article explores how the female characters deal with the family norms and gendered roles prescribed for them. In doing this, it identifies a progression from frustration, through realization (disillusionment), to the crossing of normative boundaries. Although the characters attempt to resist family norms and depart from normative family ideology, they also exhibit constant hesitations to fully transgress the norms, resulting in a process of negotiation of these norms. I argue that such tensions reveal how literature in the 2000s paved the way for subsequent literary discourse on gender and family in the 2010s, a time when feminist and other marginalized voices began to make themselves heard.

목차

Abstract
Introduction
Legal and Normative Constraints on Women
Disillusionment with Matrimonial Ideals and Patriarchal Constructs
Crossing the Normative Boundary of the Family
Conclusion
References

키워드

저자

• Youlim KIM [ Ruhr University Bochum ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  Acta Koreana

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1520-7412

• 수록기간

  1998~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재,SCOPUS,A&,HCI

• 십진분류

  KDC 912 DDC 951