A Study on Trauma Aspects in Cho Se-Hee’s Novels―Focusing on A Small Ball Shot up by A Dwarf and A Thorn Fish Coming into My Net

Hsui, Y. C. (2021). A Study on Trauma Aspects in Cho Se-Hee’s Novels―Focusing on A Small Ball Shot up by A Dwarf and A Thorn Fish Coming into My Net. The Review of Korean Studies, 24(1), 285-306, https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2021.24.1.010

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The aim of this paper is to study the problems and causes of the trauma aspects arisen due to the rapid industrialization and urbanization in the 1970s of Korea depicted in Cho Se-Hee’s A Small Ball Shot up by A Dwarf (1978) and A Thorn Fish Coming into My Net (1978). Cho’s novels show how the Dwarf and Kyeonghoon unable to adjust to the 1970s’ industrialization and urbanization get traumatized under the threat of new reality. In the case of the Dwarf, he falls into lethargy, but for Kyeonghoon, due to his dreadful family stories and his defective relationship with his cousin and workers, he undergoes compulsive experiences again and again. Cho Se-Hee’s novels reveal how the 1970’s industrialization has destructive influence on two classes each.

keywords: Cho Se-Hee, Korean society of the 1970s, capitalist, laborer, industrialization, urbanization

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Vol.24 No.1

A Study on Trauma Aspects in Cho Se-Hee’s Novels―Focusing on A Small Ball Shot up by A Dwarf and A Thorn Fish Coming into My Net

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The Review of Korean Studies