외상문학에 함축된 치유와 윤리 —돈 드릴로의『추락하는 남자』와 조이 코가와의 『오바상』병치 연구
Cure and Ethics Implied in Trauma Literature: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
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Don DeLillo has shown considerable interest in terror, frequently depicting extreme dread of something terrible to happen, in his literary texts. Since more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the 9-11 terrorist attack in 2001, the anticipation about what kind of fiction he would write as a New Yorker was high. DeLillo’s novel Falling Man (2007)in fragmentary detail represents the scene of the terrorism from the perspective of Keith Neudecker, a lawyer who escapes the collapsing world trader center. Neudecker’s post-traumatic stress disorder in the first chapter is followed by the free-associative portrayal of various impacts of the 9-11 terror on Neudecker’s wife Lienne in the second chapter. The random mixture of the first person narratives from such diverse view-point characters as Neudecker’s son Justin, relatives and friends, with dialogues and recollections yields a very close picture of the consequences of terrorism. Reading DeLillo’s Falling Man in juxtaposition with a Japanese Canadian novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, reminiscences of the maltreatment of Japanese Canadians during and after the second world war, surfaces the authorial intention of the two novels. They as trauma literature emerge to aim at curing the readers and proposing post-traumatic ethics. Laurie Vickroy’s theory of trauma narrative and cure, E. Ann Kaplan’s theory of trauma witness narrative and responsibility, and Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of trauma memory and ethics offer theoretical grounds for the convincing analysis of the two texts.
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Don DeLillo has shown considerable interest in terror, frequently depicting extreme dread of something terrible to happen, in his literary texts. Since more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the 9-11 terrorist attack in 2001, the anticipation about what kind of fiction he would write as a New Yorker was high. DeLillo’s novel Falling Man (2007)in fragmentary detail represents the scene of the terrorism from the perspective of Keith Neudecker, a lawyer who escapes the collapsing world trader center. Neudecker’s post-traumatic stress disorder in the first chapter is followed by the free-associative portrayal of various impacts of the 9-11 terror on Neudecker’s wife Lienne in the second chapter. The random mixture of the first person narratives from such diverse view-point characters as Neudecker’s son Justin, relatives and friends, with dialogues and recollections yields a very close picture of the consequences of terrorism. Reading DeLillo’s Falling Man in juxtaposition with a Japanese Canadian novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, reminiscences of the maltreatment of Japanese Canadians during and after the second world war, surfaces the authorial intention of the two novels. They as trauma literature emerge to aim at curing the readers and proposing post-traumatic ethics. Laurie Vickroy’s theory of trauma narrative and cure, E. Ann Kaplan’s theory of trauma witness narrative and responsibility, and Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of trauma memory and ethics offer theoretical grounds for the convincing analysis of the two texts.
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