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A Study on Home Discourse in the Novels of Lee Hae-Jo

이혜숙 1

1혜전대학교

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This study set out to analyze the new desires and expressive patterns of women in relation to the home discourse of the times in Peach Blossoms, The mountain and streams, plants and grasses, and A True Story of Kang Myeong-Hwa, a Ghost of a Woman, which are new-style novels written by Lee Hae-jo. The three novels gave life to the new characteristics of female desire emerging in the changing times with specific circumstances and vitality of narration and depicted the contradictions and family conflicts within the discourse. In Peach Blossoms, Tae-hee exhibits a new internality called social ego but faces a small and narrow end, in which she is buried under conflicts. In The mountain and streams, plants and grasses, Gangneung-gyp actively expresses her desire, placing the motivation of her action decision in herself, but she ends up being buried under heteronomous elements by failing to figure out the necessary conditions of choice. In A True Story of Kang Myeong-Hwa, a Ghost of a Woman, Myeong-hwa reaches an unrealistic solution of becoming "a ghost of a woman" after her attempt to get into the system through a marriage not acceptable by the normal family system failed. The female characters showed the possibility of pulling in a new era, either returning back to the conventional values, not finding proper solutions, or failing at resistance and getting frustrated. Requesting reform and change but still remaining within the Confucian views of ethics, Lee Hae-jo stayed within the scope of conservative safety by restoring the authority he himself refused even in the space of narrative and suturing up the society.

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