초록
This article attempts to analyze representations of women's body in the Anne Sexton's poetry, focusing on Julia Kristeva's concept of “abject”. According to Kristeva, Abjection, a process of unconsciously separating, excluding, and removing something in the process of forming a subjectivity, occurs. Kristeva calls this removed one “Abject”. Abject is conventionally considered filthy and terrifying because it is threatening the existing social order, system, and identity. Anne Sexton puts women's abject body in the foreground of the poems. In a male patriarchal society, representation of the female body has been hidden and ruled out because it is considered shameful and filthy. By representing these women's bodies in poetry, Sexton subverts the women's abject body from hidden to visible and objectifiable one. These subversive attempts require a process of newly accepting and analyzing the women body as an object. In this process, women deviate from the social norm of being women, shaking the essence of gender. The women's abject body becomes the open body which is Subject in Process, and here we can find the possibility of re- subjectivization. The women's open body makes multiple subjectivities possible. Furthermore, Sexton develops these women's open bodies, the abject bodies, into a place of solidarity that embraces all other women's abject bodies. It becomes a new linguistic place to talk about various women's subjectivity through the women's abject body.
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