Date of Award
6-2023
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts
First Advisor
Selah Saterstrom
Second Advisor
Tayana Hardin
Third Advisor
Jennifer Pap
Keywords
Han Kang, The Vegetarian, Ecofeminism
Abstract
In this thesis, I am writing towards an ecofeminist informed reading of the English version of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith. My aim is to display how, like an ecosystem of complex interdependency, it is impossible to separate body from theory from text from ecological context. To engage with this form of ecofeminism, I center an autotheoretical methodology with voices from ritual theory and performance theory in order to examine how Yeong-hye, the titular vegetarian of Han Kang’s novel, operates as a narrative-level metaphor for the desire for erotic ecology as a mode of ecological and somatic healing.
Copyright Date
6-2023
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
All Rights Reserved.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Rights Holder
Briana Hanratty
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
79 pgs
File Size
489 KB
Recommended Citation
Hanratty, Briana, "Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian" (2023). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2287.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2287
Discipline
Literature
Included in
Korean Studies Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Translation Studies Commons