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Kang Kyŏng-ae (20 April 1906 – 26 April 1944) (, 姜敬愛) was a Korean writer, novelist and poet involved with the Feminist movement.〔"Kang Kyung Aae" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://www.klti.or.kr/ku_01_02_011.do?method=author_detail&AI_NUM=538&admin_top_lid=ka_01&admin_m_p_seq=45&admin_s_seq=0&user_system=kuser〕 She is also known by her penname Kang Gama. ==Life== Kang Kyŏng-ae was born in Songhwa, Hwanghae-do, and had an unhappy childhood.〔Korean Literature Translation Institute: http://sso.klti.or.kr/AuthorApp〕 She was the daughter of a servant and lost her father at the age of five. She was then forced to moved to Changyeon where her mother remarried a man with three children. All of these circumstances resulted in substantial unhappiness.〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 Kang was something of a prodigy and started teaching herself to read the Korean alphabet when she was eight years old using her step-father's copy of the ''Tale of Ch’unhyang'' at a time when female literacy was not greatly valued. By age ten, she had been nicknamed the “little acorn storyteller”〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 by neighborhood elders for whom she read traditional Korean tales.〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 She was also praised in school for her essay writing and often read stories for her friends.〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 Kang enrolled in a Catholic boarding school with the help of her brother-in-law. She was later expelled for orchestrating and participating in a sit-in against the school's strict policies and a particularly cruel dorm mistress. She met a college student who was visiting from Tokyo, moved to Seoul with him, and began an affair. When the affair ended, she moved back to her family home in Hwanghae-do.〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 In 1931 Kang began publishing her writing ("P'ag ŭm" or ''Broken Zither'', 1931〔A History of Korean Literature. Peter H. Lee - editor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, England. 2003. Page Number: 412.〕), and moved to Manchuria as a newlywed, married to a communist who had divorced his first wife. She lived as a housewife in Yongjin and began to churn out literary works. This period lasted seven years after which Kang ceased writing fiction altogether.〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 This was partly related to the fact that she became the managing editor of the Manchurian Chosun Ilbo.〔Korean Literature Translation Institute: http://sso.klti.or.kr/AuthorApp〕 On April 26, 1944, one month after her mother died,〔Feminist Press: http://www.feministpress.org/books/kang-kyong-ae〕 Kang Kyŏng-ae died at her home in Hwanghae Province. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kang Kyeong-ae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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