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@article{ART002357601},
author={Byul Cho},
title={The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems},
journal={DONAM OHMUNHAK},
issn={1229-2117},
year={2018},
volume={33},
pages={35-64},
doi={10.17056/donam.2018.33..35}

TY - JOUR
AU - Byul Cho
TI - The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems
JO - DONAM OHMUNHAK
PY - 2018
VL - 33
IS - null
PB - The Donam Language & Literature
SP - 35
EP - 64
SN - 1229-2117
AB - Kim Seon-yeong is the founding member of ‘Cheong-mi(靑眉)’, the pioneering women's poetry group of the 1960s. The 60s was the period of qualitative maturity of Korean literature as a whole. And it is also the period when the voices of the women poets of unique talent have risen from the accomplishment of previous women poems. This essay examines the new subject beyond the male-centered and self-centered language and thought, through her works of the 1960s-1970s. Through this, we will take a step further on 'feminine writing'. Kim Seon-yeong’s subject of early poems is not the master of rational language but 'naked skin' itself. This subject experiences and accepts it through the skin before judging and defining the object. The skin is the most direct place for contact with subjectivity and otherness. Kim's early poems have a scene where the subject and the world meet and resonate with each other. The experience of skin erases the individual distinction between subject and object and opens the horizon of new 'anonymous existence' above the coexistence of the two. In her early works, the subject who is related to the other through the skin sensation, and thus deviates from the individuality, often appears as a symbol of 'water' or 'earth'. The symbols of water and earth mobilize the meaning of movement and cyclicity and summarize the ontology of Kim's poems. This new horizon of being awaken by skin sensation requires that we observe our sensual existence itself. In this observation we will get the possibility of going beyond the limits of ‘rational’ language. The aspect of subjectivity, established on the skin sense represented by Kim Seon-yeong's early works shows the position of the subject of writing which enables new kind of writing.
KW - Kim Seon-yeong;The sense of skin;impersonal subject;anonymity;feminine writing
DO - 10.17056/donam.2018.33..35
ER -

Byul Cho. (2018). The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems. DONAM OHMUNHAK, 33, 35-64.

Byul Cho. 2018, "The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems", DONAM OHMUNHAK, vol.33, pp.35-64. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho "The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems" DONAM OHMUNHAK 33 pp.35-64 (2018) : 35.

Byul Cho. The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems. 2018; 33 35-64. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho. "The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems" DONAM OHMUNHAK 33(2018) : 35-64.doi: 10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho. The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems. DONAM OHMUNHAK, 33, 35-64. doi: 10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho. The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems. DONAM OHMUNHAK. 2018; 33 35-64. doi: 10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho. The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems. 2018; 33 35-64. Available from: doi:10.17056/donam.2018.33..35

Byul Cho. "The Sense of Skin in Kim Seon-yeong’s Early Poems" DONAM OHMUNHAK 33(2018) : 35-64.doi: 10.17056/donam.2018.33..35