결혼이주여성의 ‘자기서사’ 연구 -수기(手記)를 중심으로-

Abstract

This thesis is to examine how marriage-based immigrant women define themselves through writing their memoirs and to establish how this influences their settlement. To achieve this, the contest-type memoirs and the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs were analyzed. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the contest-type memoirs show the phenomenon in which the voluntary confession of marriage-based immigrant women which belongs to the private domain is converted into the multicultural family which belongs to the public domain - the device to show the effectiveness of the government’s multicultural policy. Second, the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs crack the narrative structure of the so-called ‘exemplary cases.’ The anonymous memoirs of the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs eliminate the device ‘nevertheless’ which the contest-type memoirs repeated innume- rably to draw the narrative structure, that is ‘expectations and illusion → gap (conflict) → efforts to solve the problems →hope and resolution.’Third, marriage-based immigrant women publicize their private experiences of married life that they underwent through the act of writing, and based on this, they break away from marriage-based immigrant women as the individuals and begin to define themselves as the collective category of ‘marriage-based immigrant women.’

This thesis is to examine how marriage-based immigrant women define themselves through writing their memoirs and to establish how this influences their settlement. To achieve this, the contest-type memoirs and the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs were analyzed. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the contest-type memoirs show the phenomenon in which the voluntary confession of marriage-based immigrant women which belongs to the private domain is converted into the multicultural family which belongs to the public domain - the device to show the effectiveness of the government’s multicultural policy. Second, the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs crack the narrative structure of the so-called ‘exemplary cases.’ The anonymous memoirs of the collective in-depth interview-type memoirs eliminate the device ‘nevertheless’ which the contest-type memoirs repeated innume- rably to draw the narrative structure, that is ‘expectations and illusion → gap (conflict) → efforts to solve the problems →hope and resolution.’Third, marriage-based immigrant women publicize their private experiences of married life that they underwent through the act of writing, and based on this, they break away from marriage-based immigrant women as the individuals and begin to define themselves as the collective category of ‘marriage-based immigrant women.’