Abstract
This essay is the result of examining the context and narrative network of the maternal aunt that appeared newly in contemporary Korean novels. Maternal aunt is new representation of the female subject after a feminism reboot. This essay noted that this representation was found in reshaping the paternally centered blood/legal kin narrative into the female family-history narrative. This begins with a narrative exploration of normativity that intervenes and naturalizes in the composition of the blood/legal kin, and occurs by being called out of the construct during the process of tracking the gendered transgenerational trauma caused by inherited affective inequality. Furthermore, this representation is differentiated by recontextualizing the relationship between women as a transgenerational process that goes to the relationship ethics of gift and affective equality in the narrative exploring the possibility of fictive kinship. In conclusion, the maternal aunt representation in contemporary Korean novels symptomaticly expresses the female public's mind on reflection on kinship and the search for alternative kinship.
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