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A study on Lesbian Narratives in Contemporary Korean Novels - Focusing on QQ Queer Anthology Series (2018–2023)

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2025, 31(2), pp.243~268
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : May 14, 2025
  • Accepted : June 16, 2025
  • Published : June 30, 2025

Kim So-Ryun 1

1한국기술교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the transformation of lesbian narratives in Korean literature since the late 2010s, focusing on the QQ Queer Anthology Series published from 2018 to 2023. It critically engages with the potential dilution of lesbian identity as it becomes subsumed under the broader category of queer, and seeks to illuminate new narrative possibilities emerging from subjects situated at the boundaries of identity. While lesbian narratives from the 1990s to the early 2000s primarily depicted women as victims of male violence and patriarchy, emphasizing solidarity among women, more recent narratives tend to reframe queer identity through the lens of ordinary emotions, care, and communal life. This shift reflects an expansion of queer identity into the realm of universal human experience. Moreover, lesbian identity is increasingly portrayed as intersecting with gender, class, race, and disability, and as being reconstructed through affect, solidarity, and community within fluid social networks. Through this analysis, the paper explores the expanding trajectories and possibilities of lesbian narratives in post-2010 Korean literature. Such an approach offers a modest yet meaningful step toward reading the landscape of gender politics in a more multilayered and complex manner.

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