한국일본학회

The history of women literature and the rewriting of woman history are interlocked work as done in literature and history. Discussions done from feminist perspective and studies on female writer's work are complex because they consider differences and universality together. In this article, we have focused on the division of Koreans and the lives of women, examine the aspects of reappearance of divisional reality. We also explored the possibility of East Asian thoughts in the novels of Park Kyung-Ri, Song Won-Hee, Kang Shin-Jae, and Park Sun-Nyeo. When considering the space-time of Postwar, the perspective of linking the divided reality of the Korean with the changing process of world history provided an important reference point with respect to gender issues. Park Kyung-Ri's novel shows the realistic appearance of the divided identity rooted in the Cold War system through narration of war experience. Song Won-Hee's novels desperately described the painful psychological scars left by the reality of division through the problems of separated families. The novels of Kang Shin-Jae and Park Soon-Nyeo sharply captured the specific situation of East Asian invasion through the military camp town and paid attention to the will of the women character to live. In the Korean War narrative, the perceptions of reality of division and emotional stalemate, and the problems of family’s break-up and reunion are important topics of female status. In particular, the lives of a foreigners' whore, children of mixed-blood, Madame, House Boy, and House Girl embodied in the narrative of the military camp town, conveys the condition of the lives of post-War East Asian women whose ethnicity, gender, class, and race cross each other.