Is Writing Women's Literary History Necessary?

The concept of ‘literary history’ appeared with the rise of modern nations in Europe in the 19th century, so a literary history has meant a ‘national’ literary history so long time. However, we find many different kinds of writing literary history in the late of the 20th century all in the world, which were in pursuit of history and tradition of the marginalized group, such as women, laborers, the African-American, lesbians, and so on. According to academic criticisms like postmodernism in the late of the 20th century, writing literary history means inventing a ‘fiction’. Generally the tradition writing literary history found was regarded as a kind of fabrication. It is a general afunction of historiography that writing literary history of a group exaggerates its past as being a honorable or miserable one. Writing women's literary history would be at the risk of it, too. So then, is it unnecessary or meaningless? I'd like to say, in this essay, writing women's literary history is still not only necessary but also important, in aspect of not only a movement for the emancipation of women but also an academy, a study of national literary history. Writing women's literary history could play an important part of passing a general limit of writing national literary history.

keywords: women's literary history, national literary history, historiography, identity, 여성문학사, 자국문학사, 역사서술, 성별 정체성

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Is Writing Women's Literary History Necessary?

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Feminism and Korean Literature