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Patriarchy and Living as a Mother in Jeju Island: the Mythical Meaning of “Mungeon bonpuri”

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2017, (35), pp.149-182
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : May 31, 2017

Jeong, Jin-hee 1

1아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

“Mungeon bonpuri(문전본풀이)”, a shaman song of Jeju island, is a myth about family and family members. It has been commonly accepted as a myth reflecting matriarchal family system in which the mother and her son play leading roles. In this article, the common view was examined by considering the narrative of “Mungeon bonpuri” and the cultural environment of Jeju. Contrary to the conventional belief that the “Mungeon bonpuri” is reflecting the family system centered on the mother and son, it is a myth based on the patriarchal family system of Jeju Island. In the “Mungeon bonpuri”, the position and roles of each family members are defined under the absolute authority of the father. ‘Noiljeodae’, defined as a wicked person obstructing the completion of the family, is the character made by the mythicalizing logic which internalizes and accepts external powerful existence. ‘Noiljeodae’ is a ‘necessary evil’ who bears the son of a family as a concubine and recyles the human wastes to useful things as the goddess of ‘tong-si’. “Mungeon bonpuri” is the myth for ‘mothers’ who can be the member of a social system only by relying on the Son of her husband’s. Being mother and living as the mother with the faith of son and family, was the existential strategy of women in patriarchal Jeju society.

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