이 글은 김인순 소설에 나타난 젠더서사의 특징을 통해, 젠더인식이 작가의 디아 스포라 정체성을 어떻게 담고 있는가를 논의하였다. 『춘향』과 『녹차』에서는 가부장 제의 폭력구조가 젠더관계를 중심으로 반복적으로 서사되는데, 이러한 서사 구조가 아버지에 대한 거부와 동시에 어머니에 대한 부인, 이를 바라보는 딸의 서술을 통해서 전개되고 있다는 점을 제시하였다. 이 글은 작가의 어머니에 대한 묘사가 ‘희생자’ 와 ‘전복자’ 사이에서 이중적으로 극단화되고 있는 것에 반해, 냉정한 위치에서 객관적인 서술자로 등장하는 딸에 대한 묘사는 극히 제한적이라는 점을 주목하면서, 어머니와 딸 사이에서 발생하는 서사적 간극을 분석하였다. 이 간극은 김인순의 민족 정체성에 대한 내면의 시선이자 고백이라고 볼 수 있으며, 작가가 자신의 정체성에 대한 상처를 극복하고자 하는 과정이라고 하겠다. 김인순 작품에 반복적으로 제기되는 민족제재, 전기체 서사, 여성서사, 모녀서사 등은, 김인순 문학의 디아스포라 위치와 좌표를 구성하는 요소라고 할 수 있다.

Among the three elements of the story ― character, plot, and setting, the character matters the most. W. H. Hudson argues that technically the success of a work is due to the depiction of characters. In the recreation of Chunxiang, Jin Renshun deconstructed and reshaped the Korean classical work ― “the story of Chunxiang”, changing the figures of the work greatly by adding new characters, remaking the mother of Chunxiang. In doing so, the classical work is rich in new vitality and the air of new era. The writer has ever said: “There are no new things under the sun. Times and regions may be different, but the humanity is always the same.” Neglecting the historical background and feudal patriarchy, in a conceived Utopian Champs, the writer wrote the stories of one or more women from the perspective of humanity. She narrated the Chinese reflections on life in the tongue of the Korean classic, and brought about the exotic culture to Chinese contemporary literature. In “the story of Chunxiang”, as a custodian, Yuemei who was regarded as a minor character, decided the identity of Chunxiang, while she made an contrast to the noble “Chunxiang”. However, in the novel Chunxiang, the snobbish Yuemei was turned into another major character, an elegant and plump Mrs. Xiang, and saved Chunxiang at the critical moment. The best way of appreciating a work is analyzing the characters. The characters and the theme are closely related, and the characters are the core of the whole story, which have great influence on the work. There no telling of the story without characters. “Chunxiang”, the first Korean work accepted by Chinese, did a lot of contribution to the intercommunication between Chinese and South Korean literature. Facing such valuable work, we should spend time on the study of the characters in order to grasp the main ideas that the writer wants to convey. Regretfully, there is only on article focusing on the study of this work. This paper tries to make a contrastive study of the mother of Chunxiang in “Chunxiang” by Jin Renshun and the classic “the story of Chunxiang”, aiming at digging into the modern ideological connotation through character analysis.