I Eat, Therefore I Am : Kim Sunee s Memoir Woven by Food Experience

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: In Shik Bang
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제48집 2호, 209~229쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.09.30

영문 초록

Kim Sunee s memoir, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (2008), is indicative of how many current writers experiment with mixing different literary genres, mostly in an attempt to comprehend their complex subjectivities. By combining different narratives, such as travel writings, ethnographies, coming-of-age narratives, adoption stories, and food memoirs, among others, Sunee tries to recall her mobile subjectivity as an overseas Korean adoptee who has wandered many countries looking for her imagined place called home. In particular, food works as a powerful tool to relate her fragmented experiences in different countries as she employs specific culinary issues to look back on her displacement. That is, she employs gastronomical language to redesign her painful experiences into a meaningful whole. In this article, I argue that Emmanuel Levinas s jouissance can be an effective literary trope to understand the ways in which Sunee constructs her subjectivity through food.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Trail of Crumbs as a Composite of an Adoption Narrative and a Food Memoir

Ⅲ. Sunee s Memoir Seen Through Emmanuel Levinas

Ⅳ. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

Kim Sunee adoption stories food memoirs Emmanuel Levinas jouissance