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The study of female criticism in the 1960s - Center on the 'modernity'

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2009, (69), pp.355-382
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Soyeon Kang 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The concerning manuscript has the purpose of defining the form of female critiques of the 1960s has used according to social era, culture phenomenon, of the overall literature in the aspect of modernity. After the military government was established through the 4.19revolution and 5.16pithecanthrope, the modernity of the 60s of our society proceeds. This thesis states the discovery of the implication of social and aesthetic of critical literature from, or according to the social era. Especially in the 1960s, professional female writers who received literature education wrote actively, this season was when the early female literature critiques made their debut. They focused on the flow of the critiques in that era, but corrected the light critical remarks and the absent of critiques of female literature. They also commented on women issues with basis on individual experience but on more reasonable form of thinking. Through this course, they showed the female urge to change the literature and social reality. Depending solely on world travel and foreign logic may be a problem in terms of clarifying the modernity of Korean female criticism. However, the purpose can be found on transferring the shallow petit bourgeois to mature citizens, and fulfilling both system of critical theory and aesthetic independence. Compared to the male critiques who reviewed on independence of Korean literature and sovereignty of social modernity, the female critiques promotes enlightenment of the ego and female independence. The women before this time was looked upon as the 'other' in the literature world as well as the society and home, the revolution against sexual discrimination was the main task. Therefore, the female criticisms in the 60s creates an intellectual basis to criticize the republic of literary critics through establishing the new thinking called 'modernity.' This achievement is resulted from the fruit of the independence movements in the critique society. In conclusion, the republic criticism in the 60s attempted to fulfill the requirement to achieve regeneration of social and literary modernity and in this aspect, the point in question was in common between the men and women critiques.

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