A representação feminina na obra Pachinko (2017), de Min Jin Lee

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the female representation in work of Korean literature Pachinko. The best seller, written by Min Jin Lee and published in 2017, narrates the life and trajectory of excluded and inferior women in a period marked by conflicts and repression directed not only at women, but at an entire people. To this end, the objective is, in general, to analyze how female representation occurs in the work, considering the identity aspects, traditionalist and patriarchal perspectives of the male characters and the role played by women in the society of the time, in order to understand their experiences in a diverse and intercultural context. And it also seeks, specifically, to discuss the issue of Korean literature and women's writing; describe the challenges faced by twentieth-century Korean women in line with the work; in addition to investigating the way in which the identity of female characters is shaped in the midst of the cultural impasse throughout the narrative. Thus, the work is based on issues directly related to how female characters are shaped by the diasporic context and the ideologies that surround them, which are surrounded by difference, and are associated with the issues of discrimination, patriarchal violence and poverty that predominate in the work. This study is characterized as a bibliographic of qualitative character, and exploratory and descriptive purpose. In it, we sought theoretical basis in Lauretis (1994), Cho (2000); Saffioti (2001), Lee (2003); Koh (2003); Moreira (2016); Sentanin (2023), among others that are necessary for the study. In this way, it is believed that objectives are achieved, and the problem solved.