잠, 배고픔, 그리고 깨어남: 『개를 먹는 사람들』과 대안적 주체성
Sleeping, Hunger, and Awakening in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters
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This paper attempts to read Jessica Hagedorn’s problematic novel Dogeaters as an ironic mimicry of traditional bildungsroman. As Franco Moretti has noted, the traditional bildungsroman has a very specific political purpose, which is to produce a certain kind of subjectivity that is “everyday, worldly, pliant—‘normal’” (230). Dogeaters, particularly Joey Sands’s episodes, seems to imitate such a narrative of the bildungsroman by presenting Joey as a hero reaching maturity. However, Joey’s development is marked by a certain irony. He is alienated from the very process of his own development and transformation. This paper argues that his alienation toward the end of the novel is Hagedorn’s literary strategy to reveal the impossibility of the subjectivity produced by the bildungsroman and, at the same time, to explore the possibility of an alternative subjectivity—one that is not marked by intentionality, linear development and causality but by discontinuity, différance and contingency.
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This paper attempts to read Jessica Hagedorn’s problematic novel Dogeaters as an ironic mimicry of traditional bildungsroman. As Franco Moretti has noted, the traditional bildungsroman has a very specific political purpose, which is to produce a certain kind of subjectivity that is “everyday, worldly, pliant—‘normal’” (230). Dogeaters, particularly Joey Sands’s episodes, seems to imitate such a narrative of the bildungsroman by presenting Joey as a hero reaching maturity. However, Joey’s development is marked by a certain irony. He is alienated from the very process of his own development and transformation. This paper argues that his alienation toward the end of the novel is Hagedorn’s literary strategy to reveal the impossibility of the subjectivity produced by the bildungsroman and, at the same time, to explore the possibility of an alternative subjectivity—one that is not marked by intentionality, linear development and causality but by discontinuity, différance and contingency.
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