THE TRIUMPH OF THE ABJECT: A KRISTEVAN ANALYSIS OF BORA CHUNG'S “THE HEAD”

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THE TRIUMPH OF THE ABJECT: A KRISTEVAN ANALYSIS OF BORA CHUNG'S “THE HEAD”

Yazarlar:

Yağmur Kızılay

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Teori

Dergi:

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.63 Issue 2, pp.1179-1207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001305665

pISSN:

2459-0150

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 This study aims to explore South Korean writer Bora Chungs The Head from the writers short story collection Cursed Bunny 2021 through the lens of Julia Kristevas notion of the abject. Haunting readers with its creepy image of a talking head made up of the nameless female protagonists bodily waste, The Head forces them to ponder on the notion of the abject and the competency of the symbolic order to repress or exclude it, or the lack thereof as represented in Chungs story. Chungs story strikingly reflects the gradual process of the disintegration of the female protagonists sense of self and unity when the head as the abject becomes an inseparable part of her life. Despite the womans efforts to get rid of the head and thus maintain the symbolic order, the heads growing influence on the womans life as a threatening force on her identity to the point of replacing her in the end hints at the inescapable presence of the abject. By applying Julia Kristevas notion of the abject, this study will focus on the abject as an integral component of the human psyche and the failure of the symbolic laws and rules to ward off and purify the abject as represented in Chungs The Head. Through a Kristevan analysis of the story, it will be concluded that the semiotic realm as symbolized by what could be called the triumph of the abject in the story eventually prevails over the symbolic order by transgressing the boundaries between selfother, insideoutside and cleanlinessdefilement and thus making us realize the tenuousness and vulnerability of these borders.

 This study aims to explore South Korean writer Bora Chungs The Head from the writers short story collection Cursed Bunny 2021 through the lens of Julia Kristevas notion of the abject. Haunting readers with its creepy image of a talking head made up of the nameless female protagonists bodily waste, The Head forces them to ponder on the notion of the abject and the competency of the symbolic order to repress or exclude it, or the lack thereof as represented in Chungs story. Chungs story strikingly reflects the gradual process of the disintegration of the female protagonists sense of self and unity when the head as the abject becomes an inseparable part of her life. Despite the womans efforts to get rid of the head and thus maintain the symbolic order, the heads growing influence on the womans life as a threatening force on her identity to the point of replacing her in the end hints at the inescapable presence of the abject. By applying Julia Kristevas notion of the abject, this study will focus on the abject as an integral component of the human psyche and the failure of the symbolic laws and rules to ward off and purify the abject as represented in Chungs The Head. Through a Kristevan analysis of the story, it will be concluded that the semiotic realm as symbolized by what could be called the triumph of the abject in the story eventually prevails over the symbolic order by transgressing the boundaries between selfother, insideoutside and cleanlinessdefilement and thus making us realize the tenuousness and vulnerability of these borders.

 This study aims to explore South Korean writer Bora Chungs The Head from the writers short story collection Cursed Bunny 2021 through the lens of Julia Kristevas notion of the abject. Haunting readers with its creepy image of a talking head made up of the nameless female protagonists bodily waste, The Head forces them to ponder on the notion of the abject and the competency of the symbolic order to repress or exclude it, or the lack thereof as represented in Chungs story. Chungs story strikingly reflects the gradual process of the disintegration of the female protagonists sense of self and unity when the head as the abject becomes an inseparable part of her life. Despite the womans efforts to get rid of the head and thus maintain the symbolic order, the heads growing influence on the womans life as a threatening force on her identity to the point of replacing her in the end hints at the inescapable presence of the abject. By applying Julia Kristevas notion of the abject, this study will focus on the abject as an integral component of the human psyche and the failure of the symbolic laws and rules to ward off and purify the abject as represented in Chungs The Head. Through a Kristevan analysis of the story, it will be concluded that the semiotic realm as symbolized by what could be called the triumph of the abject in the story eventually prevails over the symbolic order by transgressing the boundaries between selfother, insideoutside and cleanlinessdefilement and thus making us realize the tenuousness and vulnerability of these borders.

 Bu çalışma, Güney Koreli yazar Bora Chungın Lanetli Tavşan 2021 adlı kısa öykü derlemesinden Kafa öyküsünü Julia Kristevanın zeliliğrenç kavramını esas alarak incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. İsimsiz bir kadın başkahramanın vücut atıklarından oluşan ve konuşabilen tüyler ürpertici bir kafa imgesiyle okuyuculara musallat olan Kafa öyküsü, onlara zelil kavramı ve sembolik düzenin zelili bastırma ve dışarda tutma yeterliği ya da Chungın öyküsünde temsil edildiği şekliyle yetersizliği üzerine kafa yormaları için zorlamaktadır. Chungın öyküsü, zelil konumundaki kafa nın kadın başkahramanın hayatının ayrılmaz bir parçası oldukça kadının kendilik ve bütünlük algısının giderek parçalanmasını çarpıcı bir şekilde yansıtmaktadır. Kadının kafadan kurtulmak ve sembolik düzeni sürdürmek için gösterdiği tüm çabalara rağmen kafanın kadının kimliği üzerindeki tehditkâr gücü en sonunda kadının yerine geçecek noktaya gelerek zelilin kaçınılmaz varlığına işaret etmektedir. Bu çalışma, Julia Kristevanın zelil kavramı üzerinden Chungın Kafa öyküsünde temsil edildiği şekliyle zelilin insan benliğine olan içkinliğine ve sembolik yasa ve kuralların zelili dışlama ve arındırmadaki başarısızlığına odaklanacaktır. Böylelikle, öykünün Kristevanın psikanalitik kuramıyla analizinin, öyküde zelilin zaferi olarak adlandırılabilecek durumla sembolize edilen semiyotik alanın kendiöteki, içeridışarı, temizlikkirlilik sınırlarını aşarak en sonunda simgesel düzene galip gelmesiyle bu sınırların dayanıksızlığını ve kırılganlığını fark etmemizi sağladığı sonucuna varılacaktır.

Makale detayları

THE TRIUMPH OF THE ABJECT: A KRISTEVAN ANALYSIS OF BORA CHUNG'S “THE HEAD”

Yazarlar:

Yağmur Kızılay

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Teori

Dergi:

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.63 Issue 2, pp.1179-1207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001305665

pISSN:

2459-0150

Bora Chung

Cursed Bunny

"The Head"

Kristeva

AbjectBora Chung

Lanetli Tavşan

"Kafa"

Kristeva

Zelil

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Yağmur Kızılay

Yayıncı: Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar: Edebi Teori

Dergi: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.63 Issue 2, pp.1179-1207

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2023

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001305665

pISSN: 2459-0150

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Yağmur Kızılay

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Teori

Dergi:

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi Vol.63 Issue 2, pp.1179-1207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001305665

pISSN:

2459-0150