Death of the contemporary self: contextualising suicide in the urban space.

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

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...