Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

<p>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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year

2023

Author dc:creator

• Hanratty, Briana

Contributors dc:contributor

• Selah Saterstrom
• Tayana Hardin
• Jennifer Pap

• Han Kang
• The Vegetarian
• Ecofeminism
• Arts and Humanities
• Comparative Literature
• East Asian Languages and Societies
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Korean Studies
• Modern Literature
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Translation Studies

Statement dc:rights

• <p>Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>

Language dc:language

English (eng)

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2287

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-3277