@article{ART003143163},
author={JUNHEE KIM},
title={A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2024},
number={95},
pages={005-041}
TY - JOUR
AU - JUNHEE KIM
TI - A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2024
VL - null
IS - 95
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 005
EP - 041
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This paper focuses on the female helper characters among the peripheral characters in the oral folk tales featuring Kwak Jae-woo, a.k.a. the General in Red Uniform, and demonstrates that the hierarchy of characters in tales is not centered on historical figure Kwak Jae-woo. Kwak Jae-woo’s wife is portrayed as having successfully managed the household affairs and dyed her husband’s military uniforms with her menstrual blood to provide him with “red uniforms.” In another story, his relative sister is told to have served as a soldier and given him her own red uniform. His grandmother is told to have carried rocks on her skirt to help him. This has positively brought to light the exaggerative focus on women’s menstrual blood, the significance of a relative sister who outperforms Kwak Jae-woo in martial arts and tactics, and the fact that even women who are not helpers are mentioned alongside Kwak Jae-woo and exerted influence on the transmission of oral folk tales. These women are connected to existing narrative contexts, filling the lack of central power that was supposed to prevent warfare to reveal the flexibility of transmission. Through this, the tales of Kwak Jae-woo decisively challenge the status and gender hierarchy of the time by drawing upon the context of other folk tales that previously recognized women’s strength.
KW - Kwak Jae-woo;General in Red Uniform;Female Helper;Menstrual Blood;Woman with Strong Physical Force;Hierarchy
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JUNHEE KIM. (2024). A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo. Journal of Humanities, 95, 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. 2024, "A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo", Journal of Humanities, no.95, pp.005-041.
JUNHEE KIM "A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo" Journal of Humanities 95 pp.005-041 (2024) : 005.
JUNHEE KIM. A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo. 2024; 95 : 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. "A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo" Journal of Humanities no.95(2024) : 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo. Journal of Humanities, 95, 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo. Journal of Humanities. 2024; 95 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo. 2024; 95 : 005-041.
JUNHEE KIM. "A Study on Female Helper Characters in the Oral Folk Tales Featuring Kwak Jae-woo" Journal of Humanities no.95(2024) : 005-041.
