BODY IN FLAMES: SILENCE, RUPTURE AND VIOLENCE OF THE WORD IN <em>THE VEGETARIAN</em> (채식주의자/<em>CHAESIK-JUIJA</em>) BY HAN KANG

Authors

  • Rita Lenira de Freitas Bittencourt PPG Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
  • Melissa Rubio dos Santos UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL/ PPG Letras

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179219427217

Keywords:

Body, Gender, Post-Structuralism, Women korean literature, Han Kang.

Abstract

This article aims to explore the relationship between body, silence, rupture and violence of the word in the novel The Vegetarian (Chaesik-juija/채식주의자) (2007) by the South Korean writer Han Kang. The analysis has as starting point the discussion of the rupture and the violence of the word from interviews of the writer Han Kang and the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida. The discussion of the female body will be based on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and on criticism of Sohee Kim’s Neo-Confucian philosophy in South Korea. 

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Author Biographies

Rita Lenira de Freitas Bittencourt, PPG Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Doutora em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2005). Realizou estágio pós-doutoral (2013-2014) no Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (CECFLUL).

Mestra em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1999). 

Melissa Rubio dos Santos, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL/ PPG Letras

Doutoranda em Estudos Literários- Teoria, Crítica e Comparatismo do PPG Letras- UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL (UFRGS).

Mestra em Estudos Literários- Literatura Comparada (2015) pela UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL (UFRGS).

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Published

2017-12-12

How to Cite

Bittencourt, R. L. de F., & Santos, M. R. dos. (2017). BODY IN FLAMES: SILENCE, RUPTURE AND VIOLENCE OF THE WORD IN <em>THE VEGETARIAN</em> (채식주의자/<em>CHAESIK-JUIJA</em>) BY HAN KANG. Fragmentum, (49), 141–157. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179219427217

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