Broken Melodies: a Study of the Musical Narrative in Crying in H Mart
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This paper takes the memoir of Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart as the research object, focusing on analyzing how fragmented musical narratives in the text construct cross-cultural identity. By integrating transmedia narrative—trauma and cross-cultural identity theories, it shows how a text-album matrix reconfigures trauma healing and identity formation in the diaspora. Findings include: Trauma narratives acquire dual significance through the integration of soundscapes and the music serves as an alternative mourning ritual, constructing what may be termed a “symphony of words,” while the album “Psychopomp” mirrors the affective structure of the text; Korean onomatopoeia transforms the reading experience into an auditory ritual, while integrating text with pop music creates a compelling bridge between the realms of life and death; Cultural identity struggles arise through sound—Western pop, traditional music, karaoke memories, and hymns and illustrate second-generation immigrants’ challenges with assimilation as well as lost traditions; The memoir is structured to mirror the organization of the album, creating a “readable album” that turns live performance into textual dynamics. This paper contends that musical narratives reconfigure traumatic memory into processes of subjective renegotiation through the application of strategic soundscape techniques, thereby facilitating the dynamic construction of immigrant identities.
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This paper takes the memoir of Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart as the research object, focusing on analyzing how fragmented musical narratives in the text construct cross-cultural identity. By integrating transmedia narrative—trauma and cross-cultural identity theories, it shows how a text-album matrix reconfigures trauma healing and identity formation in the diaspora. Findings include: Trauma narratives acquire dual significance through the integration of soundscapes and the music serves as an alternative mourning ritual, constructing what may be termed a “symphony of words,” while the album “Psychopomp” mirrors the affective structure of the text; Korean onomatopoeia transforms the reading experience into an auditory ritual, while integrating text with pop music creates a compelling bridge between the realms of life and death; Cultural identity struggles arise through sound—Western pop, traditional music, karaoke memories, and hymns and illustrate second-generation immigrants’ challenges with assimilation as well as lost traditions; The memoir is structured to mirror the organization of the album, creating a “readable album” that turns live performance into textual dynamics. This paper contends that musical narratives reconfigure traumatic memory into processes of subjective renegotiation through the application of strategic soundscape techniques, thereby facilitating the dynamic construction of immigrant identities.