Gender-identity in Korean Modern Novel from a View Point of a Woman's Room and Household Commodities

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Since industrialization, urbanization and modernization, with formation of consumption society, the women have experienced spatial imaginations about a room of one's own and symbol of household commodities. Women tend to define a house or a room as a means of self-reflection and self-expression. Because of husbands' indifference and impoliteness, women in home life have no external communication and become psychoneurotic. Consequently they are conscious of a solitude, pain and alienation as an objective other. The women have topophilie of interior decoration in room, due to the lack of love and faith. But the home is described by 'a grave'. The household commodities, such as a candle, a dry flower, a pencil, a cigarette, washing drying stand, a picture case, a desk, symbolize her crisis and instability. Especially women search for self-identity through a desk. Women not having 'a room of one's own' deviate from a house. They are addicted to drinking, smoking, writing, traveling, a love affair, immorality. Topohilie and deviance are connected with consumption style in a post-capitalist society. In conclusion, the former satisfies stability and oneness' desire, the latter, newness' desire.

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Gender-identity in Korean Modern Novel from a View Point of a Woman's Room and Household Commodities

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Feminism and Korean Literature