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The maidservants and novels of male writers in the 1970s

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2014, (91), pp.327-356
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Park Soo-Hyun 1

1성신여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the 1970s the male writers highlight the exploitation of maidservants in his novels. They objectify the maidservants by shuttig them in some stereotypes. The maidservants are objectified to enhance the self-identity of male writers as critical and conscientious intellectual. The male writers also objectify the maidservants for the components of their idea. They represent the maidservants as the implementation of all the virtue. This is mechanism that standardize the maidservants and use them as a source of comfort. The writers stress the intimacy with the maidservants. The maidservants are objectified to enhance the self-identity of male writers as the friendly intellectual about people. The male writers project the fantasy for the maternal affection to the maidservants and satisfy their narcissism. The maidservants are represented as sexual beings, which shows the sexual gaze of the male writers looking in the maidservants. The writers project the fantasy for purely physical wemen to the maidservants also.

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