@article{ART003215379},
author={QIAN LI},
title={Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2025},
volume={67},
pages={47-74}
TY - JOUR
AU - QIAN LI
TI - Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2025
VL - 67
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 47
EP - 74
SN - 2005-6222
AB - This paper explores the possibility of reconstructing communities in the aftermath of patriarchy’s collapse, using the framework of family narratives, with a focus on Yu Ju-hyeon's Lovers Beyond the River. Drawing on Lynn Hunt’s concept of the “family romance” and the political imagination of fraternity as theoretical tools, it analyzes the intersections of post-familial narratives, horizontal solidarity, and the autonomous agency of female characters.
Lovers Beyond the Riverdelicately captures not only the internal conflicts within the family but also the cracks in modern patriarchy and authoritarian order. The fall of Kang Jung-cheol symbolizes more than the dismantling of paternal authority; it signifies the collapse of state power itself. The alliance between Kang Tae-jin and Kang Yong-jin presents an alternative vision of community, free from vertical hierarchies. In particular, the female characters deviate from traditional gender norms and actively choose their own desires and forms of love, thereby revealing an ethical potential that emerges through the fissures of patriarchy. Unlike the exclusion of women in the revolutionary period of the West, as pointed out by Lynn Hunt, this can be interpreted as an attempt to reconstruct family ethics within the East Asian context.
In this work, Yu Ju-hyeon revisits the ethics of lost relationships through a return to emotion, conducting a literary experiment that imagines new relational orders amid hesitation and narrative blank spaces.
KW - Yu Ju-hyun;family romance;fraternity;women’s practice;collective imagination
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QIAN LI. (2025). Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River. 인문논총 , 67, 47-74.
QIAN LI. 2025, "Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River", 인문논총 , vol.67, pp.47-74.
QIAN LI "Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River" 인문논총 67 pp.47-74 (2025) : 47.
QIAN LI. Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River. 2025; 67 47-74.
QIAN LI. "Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River" 인문논총 67(2025) : 47-74.
QIAN LI. Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River. 인문논총 , 67, 47-74.
QIAN LI. Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River. 인문논총 . 2025; 67 47-74.
QIAN LI. Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River. 2025; 67 47-74.
QIAN LI. "Escape, Return, and the Formation of New Solidarities: A Variation of the "Family Romance" in Yoo Joo-hyun’s Lovers Across the River" 인문논총 67(2025) : 47-74.
