현대 여성소설의 지형과 함의 = A Paradigm and Implication in Modern Female Novels

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze achievements and problems in modern female literature by observing some features in female novels. While the female novels of the 80s mainly show the female reality based on social conflicts, considered as a whole, novels in the 90s deny this wholeness and reveal the various conflicts hidden in everyday life-various levels of oppressed female experience, peculiar female situations and a more progressive interpretation of female issues-which requires a more sophisticated awareness to understand such novels.
Female novels have had various kinds of writing strategies, such as self reflective writing, which creates a space objectifying women's own experiences and establishing their own identities; writing the body which shows female circumstances and resistance to these; and polyphonics writing which seeks to open relationships with other people and world. These various writing styles in female writing can reveal an alternative plan on how and where our literature should develop. This thesis also points out that some clues for understanding the literary achievements of recent female writers by observing the links and changes in female literature.
Female novels, which have become very complicated, should open a new chapter to go. To do this, female novels have to keep a distance from the sugarcoated desire disguised as female liberation on one hand, and get out of isolation by finding the way to communicate with society, reality and history on the other. It can be said that this awareness related to an aesthetic point of view can provide female writing with significance in literature.