"Strategic Essentialism"

Haruki and Hemingway--something to grasp?

“The man may think he ‘has’ her, but his sexual possession is an illusion; it is she who has him...she will not be ‘taken,’ since she is being paid.”

Beauvoir, The Second Sex p.632

“the idea that the capacity to give birth (biology) is what defines a woman” (1907). 

Wittig, Monique. “One Is Not Born a Woman.” The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed, Vincent B. Leitch. 2^nd ed. W.W. Norton & Company Inc.: New York, 2001. 1906-13. Print.

The brain is the mind. Nothing happens in the mind that does not have its correlate and origin in neurological activity. ... Literary scholars can use information from the biological and social sciences, but they also need to take the initiative in doing empirical research on problems that are particulartly relevant to literary understanding. ... empirically oriented literary scholars can and should produce empirical knowledge that is valuable also to the social sciences. (148)

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Buell often tries to examine the postcolonial stance of the United States, the country almost always has been existing as a colonist; what would be an implication through this kind of attempts? To put oneself in a politically victimized stance is one of the most convenient positions in our postmodern days; it would be interesting to analyze the coexistence of postcolonial and colonial stance in a country, the United States as well as Korea.

"since the eighteenth century, the author has played the role of the regulator of the fictive" (159).

Michel Foucault, ‘What Is an Author?’, in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, ed. Josue´ V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), 141–60.

시작: 연애에 목숨걸고 모솔을 병신취급하는 한국의 젊은이들. 미국적 자본주의가 가장 크게 영향을 미치고 있는 나라 중 하나인 한국의 이러한 풍토는 (제임슨의 후기자본주의적 문화논리에 따르면) 미국적 포스트모더니티의 영향과 별개로 생각할 수 없음. 일본의 신파로부터 시작되었으나 현재는 일본은 물론 아시아 국가 중 가장 멜로드라마틱한 내러티브들이 만연하는 ('막장드라마') 대중문화를 가지게 됨.

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유럽의 문화적 전통에 바탕을 두는 멜로드라마의 미국적 변용과 한국적 변용. 멜로드라마적 전통과 같은 것이 아시아에서도 존재한다면 어떤 식으로 나타났는지. 멜로드라마 또는 센티멘탈리티는 universal한 것인지 문화에 따라 local한지. 제임슨이 후기자본주의를 포스트모던 문화의 배경으로서 연결시킨 것과 같은 논의를 미국과 한국의 멜로드라마에도 적용시킬 수 있는지.

In “Notes on Raymond Chandler’s ‘Red Wind’” (ESTSF 9, i: 166–72), Marc Seals points out some of the features that make “Red Wind” a good story to study and teach: plot devices such as a necklace, pearls, and blackmail; the manipulation of “cultural stereotype to alternately fulfill and thwart” what the audience expects; the protagonist’s interest in the game of chess; the weather motif; and the use of guns to provide “Freudian phallic imagery.”