@article{ART002171444},
author={Kim, Sooyoun},
title={The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2016},
number={35},
pages={191-221},
doi={10.20516/classic.2016.35.191}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim, Sooyoun
TI - The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 35
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 191
EP - 221
SN - 1226-3850
AB - There exist a hierarchy and discrimination in imagination according to an era and a society. Certain imagination itself comes to be a taboo. As for the Sujo mythology(獸祖神話) setting an animal as an ancestor in the Chosŏn Dynasty, imagination entering into a sexual relation with a dog and making it an ancestor was an almost taboo. However, in the Sino-Korean novel of the latter Chosŏn Dynasty, <任相國父子三娶記>, a character appears who was born by a sexual relation with a dog and became the progenitor of the Chosŏn nobel family. This work integrates various types of narratives and motives from the ancient mythology to the latter Joseon Dynasty's family novels. Representatives include a motif of border crossing(越境) by one marrying a person from other nation, that of man-animal marriage(人獸交婚) by one having intercourse with an animal and a structure of Youngsa novels(影射小說) criticising certain person. It is a kind of parody.
However, this work tried to play a variation for readers to defamiliarize the existing motif through parody. Unlike the existing works having a border-crossing motif, a biracial son between Chinese envoy and Chosŏn woman was made a successor of a Chinese nobel family. Besides, a dog hardly dealt in a motif of man-animal marriage was set as a partner of human and its son was made a progenitor of a Chosŏn nobel family. Youngsa novels came to aim at the entire family beyond a person with a changed composition. It deconstructed division and difference between civilization and barbarism, Sinocentrism and eastern barbarism, human and animal, petit- Sinocentrism and barbarism. Such a parody is a destruction of taboo and it may be read as the outrageous to readers. However, creation of this work suggests that authors were people having a body of discrimination and taboo in a physical hierarchy. This work may be read as an effort for people having a tabooed body like 向化人(northern barbarians) of the latter Joseon Dynasty to construct a severe self-epic for a body acceptable in a society.
KW - <任相國父子三娶記>;man-animal marriage(人獸交婚);parody;self-epic;northern barbarians(向化人)
DO - 10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
ER -
Kim, Sooyoun. (2016). The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel. The Research of the Korean Classic, 35, 191-221.
Kim, Sooyoun. 2016, "The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.35, pp.191-221. Available from: doi:10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun "The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel" The Research of the Korean Classic 35 pp.191-221 (2016) : 191.
Kim, Sooyoun. The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel. 2016; 35 : 191-221. Available from: doi:10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun. "The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel" The Research of the Korean Classic no.35(2016) : 191-221.doi: 10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun. The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel. The Research of the Korean Classic, 35, 191-221. doi: 10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun. The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2016; 35 191-221. doi: 10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun. The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel. 2016; 35 : 191-221. Available from: doi:10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
Kim, Sooyoun. "The Body Narratology–Deconstructing Division of the Body in the Late Chosŏn Novel" The Research of the Korean Classic no.35(2016) : 191-221.doi: 10.20516/classic.2016.35.191
