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The Appropriation of Yeolnyeo in Yeolnyeo Bakssi Gyeyak Gyeolhondyeon

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2024, 17(1), pp.202-234
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2024.17.1.202
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 29, 2024
  • Accepted : April 17, 2024
  • Published : April 30, 2024

Hae Ran Cho 1 Park Hye Sung 2

1이화여자대학교
2선문대학교

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ABSTRACT

Movies with a critical view of the yeolnyeo(烈女, virtuous women who stayed loyal to her late husband) ideology began to appear in the late 1960s. Movies about yeolnyeo kept being produced until the 1980s but more or less disappeared afterwards. Recently, however, several K-dramas such as Yeolnyeo Bakssi Gyeyak Gyeolhondyeon (Yeolneyo Park’s Contract Marriage) and Bame Pineun Kkot (Night Flower) have dealt with the yeolnyeo motif. Among them, Yeolnyeo Bakssi Gyeyak Gyeolhondyeon is based on a web novel of the same title which was published in 2020. The author mentioned that she got the idea for her novel from Yeolnyeo Hamyang Bakssijeon, an eighteenth century story about a yeolnyeo who killed herself after her husband’s death. This paper analyzes how yeolnyeo narrative is appropriated in today’s Korean web novels and dramas. It examines how these contents treat the critical viewpoint on yeolnyeo ideology as a fait accompli while using the yeolnyeo motif as a means to give an impetus to the story’s development and to increase and maintain the dramatic tension of the story.

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