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Men and Women in History Based on Experiences of the Korean War

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2012, (26), pp.277-312
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : November 30, 2012

Donghun Shin 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study observed the characteristics shown in the experiences and method of speaking of the men and women in the stories that tell historical experiences by using the experiences of the Korean War gathered in field surveys as the material. Regarding the same historical events, this study observed how men and women had different experiences each other and they have given different meanings to the experiences. There was a serious difference that could not be overlooked between men and women shown in the main documents of Korean War experiences. To sum up the main points of the difference, the women have shouldered the heavy responsibilities of their families and lives. In contrast, the men generally have taken care of themselves and moved around in the war. Women in the war always had families such as their husbands, children and in-laws and struggled to take care of them. On the other hand, this study showed that the men regarded others including their families as secondary, and then concentrated their attentions and behaviors on their own survival and progresses. In remembering and telling about the war, the women remembered their families and the people around them, and told about 'hardships' related to them. In comparison, the men put themselves in the core of the stories, and would remember and narrate them as if their war experiences were interesting the 'heroic exploits.' This difference has shown that internal divisions of life between men and women were extremely big. The problem is how it will be possible to break down and transcend the barrier called the narrative of division, or division of narrative. For this, it is necessary to focus on the 'narrative of tolerance' working on the women's lives that have embraced their families with their minds and bodies as 'the other side of them.' It can be said that true communication and integration will be made only after opening their closed minds and bodies and cuddle their families, neighbor and people in this world, and achieving openness and integration inside themselves. Of course, it is required for the profound remorse for 'division inside us' that lies between the life and perception.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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