김승옥 소설의 ‘개인’에 담긴 남성성/들 (Masculinities signified in ‘Individual’ of Kim Seung-Oak’s Novels)

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초록

This paper is aimed at explaining the identity of ‘Individual’ in the novels of Kim Seung-Oak’s, Writer of the 1960s, from the layer of masculinities in the 1960s’ Korean society. The dominant discourses of the 1960s’ Korean society as well as the field of literature endeavored to establish the image of modern individual participating in the new era who could role for the nation modernization and demanded that each individual would be a historical subject of the time. However, the signifier of ‘Individual’ for the moment was equivalent to male excluding female. So masculinities had double structure meaning the general identity desexualized and the sexual identity at the same time. But the identified relation between male and individual came to be ruptured and led to leakage of gender hierarchy. Through this process male as a sexual being hided behind the discourses on modern subject became revealed.
Most male characters in Kim Seung-Oak’s Novels are described as men refusing or failing to achieve the hegemonic masculinities that were regarded as the ideal identities requested by the Korean society in the 1960s. They chose different ways to form their masculinities that were represented as otherization of women or homosocial desire. Such masculinities based on the horizontal relationship are distant from the vertical relationship of patriarchal system. This approach suggests that we could read Kim’s novels sorted as ‘after A Trip to Mujin’ in another way.

영어초록

This paper is aimed at explaining the identity of ‘Individual’ in the novels of Kim Seung-Oak’s, Writer of the 1960s, from the layer of masculinities in the 1960s’ Korean society. The dominant discourses of the 1960s’ Korean society as well as the field of literature endeavored to establish the image of modern individual participating in the new era who could role for the nation modernization and demanded that each individual would be a historical subject of the time. However, the signifier of ‘Individual’ for the moment was equivalent to male excluding female. So masculinities had double structure meaning the general identity desexualized and the sexual identity at the same time. But the identified relation between male and individual came to be ruptured and led to leakage of gender hierarchy. Through this process male as a sexual being hided behind the discourses on modern subject became revealed.
Most male characters in Kim Seung-Oak’s Novels are described as men refusing or failing to achieve the hegemonic masculinities that were regarded as the ideal identities requested by the Korean society in the 1960s. They chose different ways to form their masculinities that were represented as otherization of women or homosocial desire. Such masculinities based on the horizontal relationship are distant from the vertical relationship of patriarchal system. This approach suggests that we could read Kim’s novels sorted as ‘after A Trip to Mujin’ in another way.

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