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Body, Sight, and Power:Focusing on Pakssijeon the Female Hero Novel

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2020, 13(1), pp.173-201
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.173
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 25, 2020
  • Accepted : April 16, 2020
  • Published : April 30, 2020

KIM SEONHEE 1

1이화여자대학교 이화인문과학원

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ABSTRACT

The paper is an attempt to reconstruct the voice of a subordinate who is not controlled by the patriarchal ideology, through “Pakssijeon,” one of the late Joseon female hero novels. Unlike the other researches within literary boundaries, this paper seeks to examine this novel from the perspective of physicality and sight as the filed of patriarchal power in which women as the other is compulsorily placed. If we can read the visual control and placement of the body as Park’s metaphor for power relations, Park’s various practices can also be read as a political attempt to reverse power. Meanwhile, Park also protects herself and whole family and reverse the power through the ‘heterotopia’ that one of the Foucault’s concepts to show cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘other’, while at the same time bringing the batter into it to transform the status of power.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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