A Study on Toji (The Land) and the Chronotope of the Road
This article aims to study on Toji (The Land) written by Park, Kyong-Rhee , a novel of female family history and the narrative poetics of the road, using Bakhtinean Chronotope. Toji has t ...
A Study on Toji (The Land) and the Chronotope of the Road
This article aims to study on Toji (The Land) written by Park, Kyong-Rhee , a novel of female family history and the narrative poetics of the road, using Bakhtinean Chronotope. Toji has the chronotope of the road, having Pyungsari as a major chronotope and Kando, Seoul, Jinju, Tokyo, etc. as a number of minor chronotopes. It has parallel roads, crossing one road of womb→home→nation and the other road of child→family→people.
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.
Chronotope in the Novel and Poetics of Female Discourse
- Focusing on Honbool of Choi, Myoung-Hee
I have examined a novel of womans' family history Honbool and the chronotope of death. The chronotope of death is divided into reality and semiotic death ; the former is tombs of Mrs. Chungam while the latter is many kinds of rites relating to the death of characters and folk customs. Death is the kernel narrative of Honbool, and the characters in the novel are possessed by thanatos. Also, the death becomes a seed of life, so it's considered as a progress of a shift in generations. That is an ambivalence.
* Key words : M.Bakhtin, Toji, the novel of female family history, chronotope, the chronotope of the road, house, ambi-valence of motherhood, womb , Mimang, the chronotope of island, a narrative of memory, topophilia, regionalism, ginseng, commercial morality of Gaesung, Honbool, the chronotope of death, tomb, a head wife of the head family, blood of family seed, absorption of the full moon