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CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING IN
SOUTH KOREA: PUSHING THE PARAMETERS
OF FEMINITY IN A MASCULINIST TRADITION
by
Sally Unkyung Kim
____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Sally Unkyung Kim
Object Description
| Title | Contemporary women's writing in South Korea: pushing the parameters of femininity in a masculinist tradition |
| Author | Kim, Sally Unkyung |
| Author email | pilsburydoegurl@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | East Asian Languages & Cultures |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-07-02 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKnight, Anne |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hwang, Kyung Moon Tang, Xiaobing |
| Abstract | The theoretical framework of my thesis is contingent upon a modern field of conversations and tropes called "gendered nationalism" from which I will be drawing on related terms, masculinist and androcentric, to derive my central argument. By example of the writings of Kang Sokkyong (1951- ) and Kong Son-ok (1963- ), this paper will explore the representations of female protagonists in the writings of contemporary Korean women, who actively re-write the masculinist approach of modern Korean nationalism by articulating a new feminine voice, language, and subjectivity. Honing on the orthodox prefectures of femininity within a masculinist tradition, my paper will illuminate a great deal of comparative distance-- albeit a shared general agenda-- between these writers: Kang's writing reveals that she is interested in maneuvering within existing states of femininity, whereas Kong's writing reveals that she wishes to challenge the very parameters along which the representation of femininity might occur. |
| Keyword | women's writing; Korean literature; Kong Son-ok; Kang Sokkyong; feminist writing; contemporary Korean literature; Korean nationalism |
| Geographic subject (country) | South Korea |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m713 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kim, Sally Unkyung |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kim-20070731 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Kim-20070731.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING IN SOUTH KOREA: PUSHING THE PARAMETERS OF FEMINITY IN A MASCULINIST TRADITION by Sally Unkyung Kim ____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Sally Unkyung Kim |
