1990년대의 여성, 그 전도된 인식과 반영의 궤적

This paper deals with the trace of cognition of women in 1990`s and studies the aspects of the cognition reflected in literary works. From the end of the nineteenth century the issue of enlightening the woman was steadily discussed on newspapers. Woman was a paragon of praise and object of instruction in the period. It means that woman was a main target in the years of enlightenment. As a result, woman had not had any chance to find her identity/ego through the way of discovering her own self-consciousness. In the meantime the nation was on the verge of crisis to disappear by the 1905 Protectorate Treaty.<BR> From this time woman was cast out in the society without her willingness. In serial novels on newspapers, such as 『Ilnyum Hong(A Beautiful Red Flower)』, 『Hyuleu Nu(Bleeding Tears)』 and 『Mongjo(Dream of Tide)』, women were depicted very contradictory and inconsistent. One woman was an incarnation of the civilized, and the other a type of the perverse lost direction trembling in uncertainty.<BR> In the limit of cognition, however, it can be said that, starting with the movement for national debt compensation in the year of 1908, cognition of women and woman`s self-consciousness were changed and sprouted little by little. The typical example could be found in emergence of woman`s magazine, by which woman could find her own voice and speak. And they even had a chance to prepare to develop the social enlightenment projects. But there still was a long way to break away from the traditional cognition.<BR> Cognition of woman in 1900`s was far distant from that of 1910`s so called `new woman`. Nevertheless, by means of the study of cognition of woman in 1900`s, gradual change of cognition of woman in later years could be examined in orderly and just ways.