@article{ART003342406},
author={Jung, Hye-kyung},
title={The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2026},
number={73},
pages={63-111}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jung, Hye-kyung
TI - The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 73
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 63
EP - 111
SN - 1226-3850
AB - This study re-reads The Tale of Kim Inhyang, a late-Joseon stepmother-figure domestic novel, through affect theory and material entanglement, tracing the operative logic of its tragedy beyond particular characters or ideologies.
The tragedy is structurally configured before the stepmother arrives, as the deceased first wife Wang's last words constitute her as a future threat through an affective factual logic. Once integrated into the household, the stepmother becomes the body through which tragedy erupts, yet the tragedy itself is accelerated by an entanglement of the patriarch's suspicion and shame, the children's helplessness, and nonhuman actors. Unresolved within the household, affect flows outward across transcendental and actual realms, mediated through state power and external communities as a form of social care. The sisters' resurrection is not merely vindication but the necessary process by which affect, refusing extinction, reclaims the bodies in which to dwell.
This operative mode unfolds through three axes—body, space, and information. The work separates bodies that endure tragedy from those that generate it and distributes maternal affect asymmetrically, fixing the stepmother as an affective alien. Space functions as a performative apparatus that condenses and seals affect, reducing social catastrophe back to family misfortune. The material vibrations of information— rumors, last words, letters, and funeral orations—operate as actants determining the tragedy's direction.
KW - The Tale of Kim Inhyang;affect;material entanglement;stepmother;remarried household;affective community;social care;performativity of space
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Jung, Hye-kyung. (2026). The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-. The Research of the Korean Classic, 73, 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. 2026, "The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.73, pp.63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung "The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-" The Research of the Korean Classic 73 pp.63-111 (2026) : 63.
Jung, Hye-kyung. The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-. 2026; 73 : 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. "The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-" The Research of the Korean Classic no.73(2026) : 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-. The Research of the Korean Classic, 73, 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2026; 73 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-. 2026; 73 : 63-111.
Jung, Hye-kyung. "The Operative Principles of Tragedy and the Narrative Beyond in the Remarried Family -Focusing on Affect and Material Entanglement in The Tale of Kim Inhyang-" The Research of the Korean Classic no.73(2026) : 63-111.
