1970년대 소설에 나타난 섹슈얼리티의 장애화 －조선작 ｢영자의 전성시대｣와 황석영 ｢장사의 꿈｣을 중심으로

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In this paper, the medicalization of sexuality in 1970s novels was examined through Jo Seon-jak’s novel, ｢Yeong-ja’s Prime Years｣, and Hwang Seok-yeong’s novel, ｢The Dream of Business｣. These two works are set against the backdrop of the 1970s, a time when industrialization and urbanization were rapidly progressing in South Korea. In Jo Seon-jak’s ｢Yeong-ja’s Prime Years｣, ‘Yeong-ja’ moves to the city alone to support her family's livelihood. The yong woman’s body is trampled and raped by the power of authority. ‘Yeong-ja’, having her sexual identity stripped away, eventually goes into Ohpalpal in Cheongnyangni, a red-light district, with a disabled body. Under the name of the state's urban redevelopment project, ‘Yeong-ja’ is kicked out of the whorehouse and meets a mysterious death. This death of ‘Yeong-ja’ shows the destruction of subjective sexuality, which can be seen as an expose of the reality faced by young female workers who were driven to the city by rural depopulation during the era of industrialization.<BR/> ‘I’ in Hwang Seok-yeong’s ｢The Dream of Business｣ is a young man who has migrated to the city in search of a job. The naturally strong physique of ‘I’ loses its value as labor in the urban space. ‘I’ becomes a porn actor, and the body of ‘I’ later becomes a sexual object for a wealthy married woman. As the Korean society shows the rapid pace of urbanization and industrialization, ‘I’ in the novel shows the rapid decline into male prostitution after giving up the dream of becoming a wrestler in the city due to a lack of money. The act of using ‘sex’ as a commodity through ‘money’ shows a facet of sexualized urbanization. In this novel, sex, which has become the object of capital, is commodified, and the body of ‘I’ is portrayed as a sexual dysfunction, representing the impairment of sexuality by the capitalist class.