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

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Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Briana Hanratty

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

79 pgs

File Size

489 KB

Discipline

Literature



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