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- Title
CONSTRICTING LIFE: CONSTRUCTING/DECONSTRUCTING VIOLENCE IN HAN KANG'S THE VEGETARIAN.
- Authors
ANAND, JASMINE
- Abstract
In the wake of vegan rage throughout the world especially in Europe due to climate change and realisation of violent means towards animals, a vegan-feminist study of Han Kang's Korean novel The Vegetarian becomes very pertinent. Han Kang is definitely not directly endorsing veganism but tries to question "if it is possible for a human to completely reject any kind of violence and become a flawless, innocent being". The paper will delinate how animal vis a vis a woman's life is linked and shrinks under the influence of patriarchy, anthroparchy, and capitalism. It will also study how violence is subtly perpetrated and constructed as a moral or routine order under these institutions. Yeong-hye as the submissive protagonist calls her shots by abstaining herself from meat eating practice in a masculine world under the influence and awareness coming out of her blood curdling violent and haunting dreams. She deconstructs the idea of violence and refutes patriarchal and capitalist system around her by imagining herself as a plant gradually. Her nakedness is not erotic or sensual but a natural earthly innocent answer to the violent systems surrounding her. The paper also tries to caveat her extreme response and female desire to undo violence around and to take "the responsibility to work at each instant for [her] own evolution, transformation, transfiguration or transubstantiation". The work surely has an undercurrent of an appeal for world peace (especially the divide between North and South Korea) which is invisible amidst the visible violence.
- Subjects
HAN Kang; VEGANISM; VEGETARIANISM; VIOLENCE; PATRIARCHY; VEGETARIANS; CLIMATE change; NUDITY
- Publication
Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, 2019, Vol 6, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
2360-3372
- Publication type
Article