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Hatas Black Sun: The Melancholic and the (Gendered) Morbid Bodies in A Gesture Life
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- Issue Date
- 2018-06
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 미국학연구소
- Citation
- 미국학, Vol.41 No.1, pp. 179-202
- Keywords
- A Gesture Life ; Julia Kristeva ; melancholia ; trauma ; gendered bodies
- Abstract
- This study approaches the novel from psychodynamic perspectives, where the narrative is woven into the strands of traumatic memories and past. Deriving from Julia Kristevas discussion on melancholia, this paper discreetly examines Hata as a melancholic, who is unaware of what he has lost and even that he has lost. Racially abject but in defiance of his separation from the mother, Hata introjects loss as his own subjectivity. The insoluble void causes him to wander through the bravado of belongingness, which he eventually transforms into Sublimation. This paper reads that Hata finally faces his own black sun, deviating from his earlier gesture life; thus, the novel becomes a successful case study of the melancholic. However, female bodies are at stake, subsumed under Hatas sexual perversion. The novel renders trauma behind the fragmented narrative of an Asian American man at the expense of consuming morbid feminine bodies physically and psychologically.
- ISSN
- 1229-4381
- Language
- English
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