SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Han Kang

»Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a first for an Asian woman and for a Korean.« -- More information: Wikipedia

The Vegetarian

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Vegetarian (Korean: 채식주의자; Hanja: 菜食主義者; RR: Chaesikjuuija) is a 2007 novel by South Korean author Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Based on Han's 1997 short story "The Fruit of My Woman", The Vegetarian is a three-part novel set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and home-maker, whose decision to stop eating meat after a bloody nightmare about human cruelty leads to devastating consequences in her personal and familial life.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Korean History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Mr. Cheong; Cases: Fictional Victims: Yeong-hye; Types: Offenders / Victims: Marital Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Ahn, Hakyoung. »Empowerment and Exploitation: Sexual Dynamics in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.« Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 43 (2024): 277-293.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Ranger, Holly A. »Meat, metamorphosis, and the male gaze: Ovid's Daphne in Han Kang's The Vegetarian.« Rape in Antiquity: 20 years on. London 2017.

[Info] Sandilands, Catriona. »Sexual Violence and Vegetal Persistence in The Vegetarian and Cereus Blooms at Night.« 2021 MLA Annual Convention.Vancouver 2021.