A Study on Mimang and the Chronotope of the Island

North Korea. Also, Mimang has a woman heir (granddaughter) who took over her grandfather's heritage focusing to ginseng and commercial morality of Gaesung. Then Mimang showed us an exclusive regionalism. That's why Mimang has the closed narrative space of the chronotope like an island on the level of its plot. The chronotope of an island is composed of two types. One is a real island, the other's semiotic island. The former is Ganghwado which is a copy of Gaesung as the place of growing ginseng, and the latter is Gaesung's locality. In a sense, Mimang is a ginseng narrative. Ginseng is similar to woman's body and especially ‘Koryo Insam (Korean ginseng)’means national identity. It's homology to woman's sufferings and Korean's national identity-crisis in the enlighten period one hundred years ago. The heroine of Mimang tried to keep ginseng as a symbol of woman and nationality, and she absolutely finished her task in the text. Furthermore, the novel presented a model of modern capitalism through the handover of a family business by a woman heir in Korea, as well.

keywords: M. Bakhtin, Chronotope of the Island, a novel of family history, Mimang, a narrative of memory, topophilia, ginseng, commercial morality of Gaesung., 바흐찐, 크로노토프, 미망, 여성가족사소설, 토포필리아, 기억의 서사, 지역주의, ‘섬’의 크로노토프, 개성인삼, 개성 상도, 가업계승

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A Study on Mimang and the Chronotope of the Island

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Feminism and Korean Literature