Death of the contemporary self: contextualising suicide in the urban space.
By comparing Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood (1987) and Kim Young-ha’s I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996), this paper asserts that both authors express the act of suicide as a cultural response to the new urbanity of the 1960s Japan and 1990s South Korea. The act of suicide in both novels th...
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Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46392 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |