팬데믹 이후 사회에 대한 (여성)문학의 응답 : 젠더, 노동, 네트워크 = Response of (Female) Literature to Post-Pandemic Society : Gender, Labor, and Network

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article overviews the women who are in crisis in the private and public areas due to Covid 19, specially focusing on the emotional labor and care labor. And this tries to predict how the recent trend of female literature can provide the positive imagination for the reconstruction of Korean society in the post-Covid era.
First, the disaster such as Covid 19 has paradoxically resulted in the visualization of invisible beings, including women and the socially disadvantaged, and evokes the importance of community responsibility for these invisible beings. The responsibility and solidarity of community members are also main topics in female literature these days.
In Chapter 2, I notice that the return of the real name narrative which gives names to each characters in recent female literature. Kim Eui-kyung’s Call Center and Jeong Se-rang’s Fifty People discussed in this chapter are real name narratives and these effectively express the solidarity between the characters through the so-called network narrative strategy.
Chapter 3, Women’s Story/History of Emotional Labor and Care Labor analyzed how the novel depicts the situation in which emotional labor and care labor are transferred only to women. The feminization of emotional labor and care labor is revealed through situations in which mothers and daughters continue to take charge of these labors. (Hwang Jeong-eun ‘What I Want to Say’), and female worker performs her laugh and manages her emotions. (Hwang Jung-eun, ‘Bok-Kyeong’). In this chapter, it was also noted that care workers are invisible beings, such as the elderly, AI robot, and commercialized care provider. (Yoon Yi-hyung ‘Danny’, Jang Ryu-jin ‘Hand of Help’)
In conclusion, the ‘With You’ which symbolized the solidarity in the era of Feminism Reboot is connected with the imagination and vision about post Pandemic society. The network narrative in Call Center, Fifty People, and the gendered emotional labor and care labor in ‘What I Want to Say’, ‘Bok-Kyeong’, ‘Hand of Help’ show that connection and solidarity are alternatives for the survival and the community. This is also linked to the public character of literature.

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