- Author: Baek, Minjeong
- Title: A Study on Pathologic Imagination found in ‘Violence’ Narratives towards Unmarried Mothers and their Children from Oral Literature - Focusing on Jumong Myth, Jeseokbonpuri, Life Story of an Unmarried Mother
- Language: Korean
- Journal: Eomunyeongu 106: 123-157
- Publication Year: 2020
- Publisher: The Research Society of Language and Literature
■ Abstract This study, focusing on the prejudice and discrimination experienced by unmarried mothers and their children, investigated the pathologic imagination found in the oral literature, The texts of Jumong Myth, Jeseokbonpuri, and Life Story of an Unmarried Mother were searched to find various violences involved in prejudice and differentiation and the pathologic sequelae due to them were identified from the literary intrinsic perspective. The unmarried mothers had physical and psychological pathologic symptoms as the sequelae caused by violences such as kidnap, captivity, sexual assault, parenting, and financial responsibility imposed by their husbands; expulsion by their original family; mockery and disregard in society. It was also found that their children had psychopathological sequelae of anxiety and psychological pains due to differentiation and negligence in society. It was investigated, from the literary intrinsic perspective, that these violences and sequelae come from a social pathology where a normal society is defined and those deviated from normal were defined as abnormality, thus prejudice and differentiation towards such abnormality are justified. Unlike foreign countries where various forms of family and unmarried childbirths are accepted, Korea has long and rigid tradition of normal family narratives that defines normal family just as those composed of couple and child. The violence narratives towards unmarried mothers and their children are considered to reflect the normal family narratives and familialism that dismiss family of unmarried mother by marginalizing them have acted as a sociopathological imagination from era of nation-building myth to now.
|
