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A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982
Abstract
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, written by Cho-Nam Joo in 2016, vehemently opposes the institutions that typically determine gender roles and standards, focusing on women’s experiences in a patriarchal society while also criticizing the discrimination on the basis of gender and emotional abuse that women encounter. The narrative offers a compelling analysis of the difficulties women encounter in asserting themselves and locating their places in society, including the gender pay gap, workplace harassment, emotional abuse, misogyny, gaslighting, and the pressure to adhere to traditional gender stereotypes. In a society driven to psychosis by these challenges, this article will try to explore the inner and outer world of women who emerge as representative of all women, but who are categorized below everyone and everything in the patriarchal paradigm, in relation to Korean society. The article will examine this novel by means of its portrayal of women and gender dynamics and contextualizing it within the frameworks of Western feminist theories, which encourages readers to think about how they can contribute to a more egalitarian and just society by emphasizing the need for greater gender equality and social change, from the point of view of the representation of all women trying to live in a patriarchal society where they feel imprisoned and are considered pathological lunatics and analyze it through its contextualization within Western feminist theories of an alternative female narrative subjectivity created to give voice to women's will to transcend gender norms.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Literary Theory, Studies of Asian Society, Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
June 27, 2023
Submission Date
May 16, 2023
Acceptance Date
June 22, 2023
Published in Issue
Year 2023 Volume: 3 Number: 1
APA
Muştak, M. Y. (2023). A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982. World Language Studies, 3(1), 18-34. https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP
AMA
1.Muştak MY. A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982. World Language Studies. 2023;3(1):18-34. https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP
Chicago
Muştak, Münevver Yakude. 2023. “A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman As Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982”. World Language Studies 3 (1): 18-34. https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP.
EndNote
Muştak MY (June 1, 2023) A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982. World Language Studies 3 1 18–34.
IEEE
[1]M. Y. Muştak, “A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982”, World Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 18–34, June 2023, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP
ISNAD
Muştak, Münevver Yakude. “A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman As Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982”. World Language Studies 3/1 (June 1, 2023): 18-34. https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP.
JAMA
1.Muştak MY. A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982. World Language Studies. 2023;3:18–34.
MLA
Muştak, Münevver Yakude. “A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman As Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982”. World Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 18-34, https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP.
Vancouver
1.Münevver Yakude Muştak. A Life Dragged into Psychosis: Representation of Every Woman as Nobody in Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982. World Language Studies [Internet]. 2023 Jun. 1;3(1):18-34. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA75GJ53MP