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Woman image presented in the Korean historical children novel(children's story) －Focused on Queen's Red Skirt, Hak-i, the Court Lady

hyewon jeong 1

1서울교육대학교

ABSTRACT

History is not a stiff fossil but it still has a life and it endlessly communicates with both present and future. Historical children novel(children's story) can be defined as a narrative literature for children which adds fictitious imagination based on the historical accidents. While historians focus on the realistic history, writers put the literary imagination on the realistic history. For writer's sense of value or their influential relationship in society, they can be possible to interpret history according to their own view. So we have to admit that both historians and writers can stand for different point of view. When creating historical novel for children, the author is suffered from double hardship for both reappearing history and creating fictitious history. Reconfirming history and showing it with different way has sufficient meaning and value for the difficulties. The two literary works turn the view clinging to the huge discussion to the little and valueless 'Court Lady' and show the image of woman through her. Especially, these works put the intention of author and those days into the works through fictional character rather than real person. The three images of women they constructed in the literature is different with the historical novel which focused on the historical hero so they bring out the experimental intention of authors. In the chaotic period coexisting both premodern and modern age, the equal, finding identity or future intentional women image is added both probability and the modern interpretation. If the condition that can merge to the past and the present is spread elaborately, these literature works can not be troubled. Image of the time and woman through insignificant person in the swirling history has a sufficient meaning itself. Unlike the past tendency which focused on the huge accident or discussion, today's works which give a main role to the small and minute accident and people also clearly need to the readers and can approach more friendly. The two pieces of work are decisively distinguished from the 21th century where pursues variety and I look forward to that various works of historical children novels and children's story are published.

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