<진링의 13소녀>의 서발턴 서사의 스토리텔링

A Study on Subaltern Narrative of <The Flower of War>

In 1937, Japan invaded Nanjing in China and carried out the Nanjing Massacre, which slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese sodiers and civilians. The truthfulness of the Nanjing Massacre is essential for the improvement of the relations between China and Japan and, furthermore, for peace in East Asia. In this study, we analyzed the narrative of <The Flowers of War>, a Chinese film based on Nanjing in 1937, according to semiotic methodology. Semiotic narrative analysis was carried out by syntagmatic analysis and paradigmatic analysis. Through the syntagmatic analysis, it was confirmed that characters with various identities and ranks showed a positive attitude change against the Japanese army during the story. Through the paradigmatic analysis, it was found that narrative about ‘violence and survival’ is latent through the confrontation pair of the Japanese and the ‘cathedral people’ in the binary opposition. Then, based on Roland Barth’s concept of mythology, we looked for the mythical elements inherent in narrative analysis of the film. This proved that the film abolishes traditional masculine narratives and sets geishas and female students as heroes and places them at the center of nationalist narrative to build a subaltern myth.