This study aims to identify the literary values that the writers Eun Hee-kyung and Jeon Gyeong-rin achieved in the literary discourse in 1990s by showing how the female subjects in their novels, who were seized with the patriarchal ideology, the existing power discourse, face the truth and overcome that. In previous studies, Eun's discussion on female subjects showed two aspects" focusing on the appearance of resistance to patriarchy or centering upon the subject who is still obsessed by the patriarchal discourse. This study figures that the reason why the female subjects show a cynical attitude toward life while paying attention to resistance is because they not only remain preoccupied with the established power but also find the inner truth by reaching self-awareness. Meanwhile, existing studies on the novels by Jeon showed the real situation that the female subject faced and how she overcame it, but this study intends to analyze the female subjects, considering them as the ones who recognize the illusion of generalness and focusing on their practice through solidarity with others.
Female subjects in the books by Eun look fragmented in a phallic symbolic order. This fragmentedness appears to be psychopathological to those who settle for the symbolic world, but in reality, their symptom is both an intense expression of desire and exposure of resistance that have not been disclosed so far. However, the female subjects realize that their desires are frustrated, that it is impossible for them to live integrating with the system of symbolic world. The female subjects get disenchanted with themselves along the way and reveal the deception of ideology by realizing what the genuine truth is. Female subjects in the books by Jeon consider themselves as a disgusting "abject" that does not fit with the world spending days in a state of torpor, but they never accept living a life under restraint based on such a male-centered system. They face the fact that they are "abjects", showing the possibility of overthrow as disturbing the order in their own ways.
The way the female subjects who realized the truth overcome the established power discourse is represented through community thoughts. In the case of those in Eun's works, they deny the violence instinct of united community that unites as one and leave the sharing community through "communication" for interaction that does not form a single substance in the state of reservation. Jeon gives attention to the diversity of existences, or difference. Jeon shows the possibility of their active solidarity and represents their liberation toward the forthcoming community as leaving for the forest.
Therefore, these two writers' reason for dismantling the community that arrives at unity as being preoccupied with universal logics without acknowledging differences conveys the value-circulating truth needed for the formation of community. This study considers that Eun and Jeon focused on micro-discourses dealing with individual inner truth, attempted an aesthetic approach to their works, and achieved literary politics that converts the reality where women's voices were considered as "noises" into "voices."