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The Literary Representations of Korean War Memories as “Grief-Work”: Ha Jin’s War Trash and Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student
저자
구은숙 (청주대학교)
발행기관
한국영어영문학회(The English Language and Literature Association of Korea)
학술지명
권호사항
발행연도
2008
작성언어
English
주제어
등재정보
KCI등재,SCOPUS
자료형태
학술저널
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수록면
899-915(17쪽)
KCI 피인용횟수
1
DOI식별코드
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Freud analyzes in his essay “Mourning and Melancholia” the way in
which the people react to the painful loss of the loved objects. According
to him, people suffering from the death of the loved ones go through
the process of mourning in which they detach themselves from the lost
object and thereby heal themselves over time. Although grief was not a
primary concern for Freud, feminist critics such as Judith Butler and
Kathleen Woodward emphasize the importance of grief. Butler argues
grieving is “not to be resigned to inaction” but is “the slow process by
which we develop a point of identification with suffering.” This paper
demonstrates how grief becomes the process of transformation and reconstruction
of the subjectivities of the Korean War survivors and their
descendants by looking at the literary representations of Korean War
memories. Ha Jin’s War Trash and Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student
can be defined as what Kathleen Woodward calls “grief-work” whose
emphasis is “not on a gradual giving up of those lost but remembering
them in a sustainable grief.”
Hs Jin’s War Trash, which portrays the lives of Chinese POWs during
the Korean War, examines such important issues as the construction of
national subjects, enforced migration and historical trauma. Ha Jin, looking
at the Korean War from the perspectives of Chinese POWs, presents
the internal ideological conflicts within the prison camps which become
more horrific than the war itself. The novel demonstrates how Chinese
national subjects were ordered to participate in the war and eventually
discarded by the nation as war trash, having been completely erased
from the Chinese history. In Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student, Chang
Ahn suffers from the memory of physical torture. Being arrested by the
National Police on suspicion of espionage, Chang was tortured by the
police until the only way he could keep his sanity was to dissociate
himself from the bodily pain. Judith Butler defines violence as “an
exploitation of that primary ties, that primary way in which we are, as
bodies, outside ourselves and for one another.” The vulnerability of
our bodies is at its most extreme during the war when one’s existence
is shattered by unbearable torture.
In the literary representations of the historical and cultural memories
of the Korean War by Ha Jin and Susan Choi, the grief of the war survivors
which has not been mourned is brought to light. In doing so, two
writers emphasize the importance of “naming historically lost Others.”
The engagement with memories of the war and therefore violence poses
us an important ontological and ethical question, that is, who we are
in the world, what makes us human beings, and how we connect ourselves
to others.
Freud analyzes in his essay “Mourning and Melancholia” the way in
which the people react to the painful loss of the loved objects. According
to him, people suffering from the death of the loved ones go through
the process of mourning in which they detach themselves from the lost
object and thereby heal themselves over time. Although grief was not a
primary concern for Freud, feminist critics such as Judith Butler and
Kathleen Woodward emphasize the importance of grief. Butler argues
grieving is “not to be resigned to inaction” but is “the slow process by
which we develop a point of identification with suffering.” This paper
demonstrates how grief becomes the process of transformation and reconstruction
of the subjectivities of the Korean War survivors and their
descendants by looking at the literary representations of Korean War
memories. Ha Jin’s War Trash and Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student
can be defined as what Kathleen Woodward calls “grief-work” whose
emphasis is “not on a gradual giving up of those lost but remembering
them in a sustainable grief.”
Hs Jin’s War Trash, which portrays the lives of Chinese POWs during
the Korean War, examines such important issues as the construction of
national subjects, enforced migration and historical trauma. Ha Jin, looking
at the Korean War from the perspectives of Chinese POWs, presents
the internal ideological conflicts within the prison camps which become
more horrific than the war itself. The novel demonstrates how Chinese
national subjects were ordered to participate in the war and eventually
discarded by the nation as war trash, having been completely erased
from the Chinese history. In Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student, Chang
Ahn suffers from the memory of physical torture. Being arrested by the
National Police on suspicion of espionage, Chang was tortured by the
police until the only way he could keep his sanity was to dissociate
himself from the bodily pain. Judith Butler defines violence as “an
exploitation of that primary ties, that primary way in which we are, as
bodies, outside ourselves and for one another.” The vulnerability of
our bodies is at its most extreme during the war when one’s existence
is shattered by unbearable torture.
In the literary representations of the historical and cultural memories
of the Korean War by Ha Jin and Susan Choi, the grief of the war survivors
which has not been mourned is brought to light. In doing so, two
writers emphasize the importance of “naming historically lost Others.”
The engagement with memories of the war and therefore violence poses
us an important ontological and ethical question, that is, who we are
in the world, what makes us human beings, and how we connect ourselves
to others.
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2014-10-08 | 학회명변경 | 영문명 : 미등록 -> The English Language and Literature Association of Korea | KCI등재 |
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