1970년대 한국범죄소설과 살인하는 여성들

초록

In 1978, during a period in which Korea was experiencing rapid economic growth and a strong societal demand for the improvement of women's status, three crime fiction depicting women as perpetrators of murder crimes were simultaneously published. Given the long history of crime fiction, the appearance of women as murderers was not a new phenomenon. However, while it may have been common in the history of Western literature, it was still rare in Korean novels for women to appear as central agents of such extreme and deadly acts as murder. In this regard, the paradoxical situation found in crime fiction—where the era's call for the advancement of women's status intersects with the emergence of female murderers—is worth noting. In this study, we examine the issue of "women's anger" in late 1970s Korean crime fiction，focusing on three works featuring female murderers: Tuesday Night's Woman by Yoo Hyun-jong, River of the Vagabond by Kim Seong-jong, and A Country I Cannot Go To by Jo Hae-il. The research explores the motivations and reasons behind the intense anger that led these women to commit murder. Why were women in 1970s Korean crime fiction driven to such extreme acts of anger? If crime itself can be seen as a form of rebellion, what aspects of Korean society were these women protesting through the ultimate crime of murder? The study analyzes these themes through the aforementioned three Crime fiction. In addition to Yoo Hyun-jong and Jo Hae-il's works, Kim Seong-jong's novel also portrays women as inherently ignorant or promiscuous beings. Consequently, the crimes of murder committed by these female characters are depicted not as responses to societal injustices but as manifestations of their innate madness.

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