[Feature] Poetry That Moves Forward: Women’s Poetry After the “Feminism Reboot” / Oh Youn-kyung
The Quarterly Changbi 204, Summer 2024
Abstract
The Quarterly Changbi’s editorial board member and literary critic Oh Youn-kyung clarifies how women’s poetry, after the “feminism reboot,” has progressed with flexibility, while sometimes repeating and other times deconstructing gender norms. She then predicts that women’s poetry, which has proven that gender is a powerful tool for approaching intersectionality inherent in life, will be recorded as a victory of life and a pride of the future. Oh perceptively identifies poems depicting female workers’ realities and insightfully captures their world of possibilities, as depicted by female poets such as Ju Min-hyeon, Han Yeojin, and Im Yu Young--that is, the triumph of life behind their familiar attitudes and gentle tones.