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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Main Author: Tan, Puay Shian.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46392
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English