American Studies (미국학)

Seoul National University American Studies Institute (서울대학교 미국학연구소)
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A Narrative of Illness and Affect of Rebel Youth in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

『호밀밭의 파수꾼』에 나타난 1950년대 미국 청소년의 정동과 질병서사

  • Received : 2021.05.01
  • Accepted : 2021.06.16
  • Published : 2021.06.30

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Abstract

J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel, Catcher in the Rye, has generally been known as a story of a young rebel, Holden Caulfield, who tries to break away from reality in the fifties, a decade prevalent with the strict rule and faultfinding culture of what he is taught at school: to simplify and unify. This novel often refers to a journey of an outsider who commits to playing a catcher in the rye, a fantasy world of innocence, infinity, and youth. As the story unfolds, Holden's ontology is rendered to show how vulnerable his affective ontology is to the ideological reality of containment and conformity. This informs how Holden is a pathological character that reifies the performative crisis of the postwar US Cold War ideology. That said, this paper examines the extent to which this novel can be possibly read as a narrative of illness to expose Holden's pathological conditions of illness, hysteria, and psychosis. Thus, it looks at his medical symptoms whose pathogens I attempt to analyze in terms of his affective potential of being ontologically engaged to the historical context, or the political unconscious, of the postwar US in the early Cold War years.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문 또는 저서는 2018년 대한민국 교육부와 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(NRF-2018S1A5A2A01036011).

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