Beschreibung
This book is a close and highly original reading of Han Kangs The Vegetarian. Its central concern is that of the violence in the novel directed towards the female protagonist Yeong-hye and in respect to Han Kangs notion of innocence. Employing a sophisticated theoretical approach, the book will argue that Yeong-hye is the epitome of someone trying to embrace the victims of a violent history, symbolized in the novel as uprooted trees. To make this case, Gaston Bachelards concept of the vegetal imagination will be incorporated within a broader poststructural-psychoanalytic context, namely that of Jacque Lacans key concepts of the Real and Fantasy. Further still cultural economics will provide further insight in relationship to Margaret Atwoods notion of debt and 'payback,' accounting for Yeong-hyes deeper motivations, crystalized as 'moral debt.' As William Skidelsky insightfully illuminates in his review of Atwood's book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth; "At a time when so many of us are mired in debts of the financial variety, it is worth remembering that it is the other, non-financial debts that we owe-to the planet, and to each other[.]."
Autorenporträt
Jihyun Lee - Department of English Literature, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea - Teaching a Writing class in Philosophy & Humanities at Hosan University - Former business consultant of Automotive parts companies - Publications: "Alienation and Love in "A Painful Case": From a Lacanian Perspective," etc.
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