@article{ART002236039},
author={Choi Eun Jeong},
title={A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2017},
volume={47},
pages={291-312},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291}
TY - JOUR
AU - Choi Eun Jeong
TI - A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2017
VL - 47
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 291
EP - 312
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper examines how 'house' is meaningful in Chi Li’s novel. Chi Li focuses on the house as a symbol of status, and the house as a place of gender performance. First, as a sign that symbolizes an individual's identity, 'house' is divided into intellectual and petit bourgeois, and constitutes binarism into civilization/non-civilization, knowledge/non-knowledge, spirit/anti-spirit and superior/inferior. In recognizing the irrationality and unfairness behind house symbolizing intellectual and petit bourgeois, Chi Li shatters the boundaries of the binaralized house as a sign of identity. Second, it dismantles the house as a place where gender is (re)produced. This is accomplished through two aspects. One is to re-define a private area house as a public area in which economic activity occurs. The house, as a public area in which economic activity occurs, becomes a place where women are reborn as economic entities. Passive, dependent femininity is reconstructed as independent and subjective. The other dismantles the definition of the house which is identified with masculinity. The house identified with masculinity is a place that symbolizes the socio-economic capacity of men. According to the socio-economic ability of males, the house is a place symbolizing the realization of masculinity, and it becomes a place to fix the gender order while reproducing masculinity. It may become a place to experience the weakening or defamation of masculinity. At that moment, the house becomes a place where the gender order of masculinity and femininity is overturned. Through this, Chi Li reconstructed, and in a sense revolutionized the definition of the house as a place where traditional gender is (re) produced by dismantling the definition of fixed femininity or masculinity.
KW - public sphere;private sphere;House;symbol;gender;(re)production;dissolution
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
ER -
Choi Eun Jeong. (2017). A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel. Cross-Cultural Studies, 47, 291-312.
Choi Eun Jeong. 2017, "A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.47, pp.291-312. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong "A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel" Cross-Cultural Studies 47 pp.291-312 (2017) : 291.
Choi Eun Jeong. A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel. 2017; 47 291-312. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong. "A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel" Cross-Cultural Studies 47(2017) : 291-312.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong. A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel. Cross-Cultural Studies, 47, 291-312. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong. A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2017; 47 291-312. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong. A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel. 2017; 47 291-312. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
Choi Eun Jeong. "A Study on the Meaning of ‘House’ in Chi Li’s Novel" Cross-Cultural Studies 47(2017) : 291-312.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..291
