Abstract

This study tries to analyze so called Korean-style ‘Chick-Lit’through a textual analysis of Jung Yi-hyun’s novels, 『My SweetCity』(2006) and 『Romantic love and Society』(2003). Chik-lit, one ofmodern fiction’s genre, deals with love, marriage, work, friendshipand other features that lead success or create conflict in women’sdaily life. Also this genre has a value as a cultural translation. Since thisgenre like “sex and the city” was introduced, in Korea, the opinionson ‘Chick-Lit’ have been sharply divided into two; the story ofextravagant young women, called ‘Doengang girls’, and thewomens initiation story. AAnndd ssoo tthhiiss ssttuuddyy aims at being somepossibility of new women discourse in terms of sexuality, marriage,consumption and desire in Korean-style chick-lit which is differentfrom western one. The writer, Jung Yi hyun, depicts the life of mimicry as“shadowcity” and also depicts the women’s characters that are captured inthis shadow city as cynical subject. I think that this point is one ofsatires on modern women’s life and situation including the writer’sown life. On the other hand, Jung Yi-hyun’s chick-lit novels asmimicry genre codes also suggest the solution to face their ownlife and body. If Chick lit produces political effect through theprocess of border-crossing cultural translation, her Novels as one of Korean style chick lit creates the self satire on the situationwhich the minor copies the major.