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This paper aims to explore Young Hill Kang’s East Goes West with thematic inquiries of so-called cosmopolitan melancholy. East Goes West, written in 1937, has been acclaimed as a harbinger of Korean American fiction though in numerable aspects it has raised serious questions of its themes and characters due to dominating geographical, ideological judgments. This paper, avoiding falling into the pit of politically bipolar understanding, maintains that the characters, Chungpa Han and Dowan Kim, are allegorical figures unfolding their cosmopolitan melancholia as political unconsciousness persevering in the most capitalistic urban space in the U. S. Alienation, reification, exile, diaspora, and melancholia form a constellation of allegory reflecting characters’ unstable identity, resistance to assimilation to capitalistic culture, and interstitial obscurity confronting imperialism and intricate machine of capitalism in the U. S. as well as global space. As theoretical scaffoldings, to explore melancholia as both creative force and ideological fantasy, this paper uses Sigmund Freud’s idea of the difference between mourning and melancholia, Walter Benjmain’s understanding of Baudelaire’s themes?flaneur, poetic hero?and melancholia as galvanizing source of creativity. Embracing these themes and theoretical ideas, the paper consists of three parts: First, it throughly analyzes Chungpa’s melancholia using Freud’s theory of melancholia focusing on ideological fantasies of cosmopolitanism; In turn, using Benjamin’s understanding of flaneur in Baudelaire’s poetry, it delves into the limit of Chungpa’s recognition of capitalistic system as a symptom of his melancholia; Last, focusing on Dowan Kim’s eternal exile and his suicide, the paper suggests power of melancholia as creativity.
목차
I. 서론: 왜 『동양, 서양으로 가다』는 문제작인가?
II. 멜랑꼴리와 환영
III. 환영 속의 산보자
IV. 한 유배자의 죽음
V. 결론: 창조적 우울증과 한국계 미국인 문학의 새로운 가능성
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4. [단행본] - Benjamin, Walter / 2006 / Selected Writings. Vol. 4, 1938-1940 / Belknap Press of Harvard UP : 313 ~ 355
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2. [단행본] - Benjamin, Walter / 2006 / Selected Writings. Vol. 4, 1938-1940 / Belknap Press of Harvard UP : 3 ~ 92
3. [단행본] - Benjamin, Walter / 2006 / Selected Writings. Vol. 4, 1938-1940 / Belknap Press of Harvard UP : 161 ~ 199
4. [단행본] - Benjamin, Walter / 2006 / Selected Writings. Vol. 4, 1938-1940 / Belknap Press of Harvard UP : 313 ~ 355
5. [단행본] - Derrida, Jacques / 2007 / Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings / Routledge : 237 ~ 264
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