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Remarking that contemporary American fiction and culture, infected by irony, has become hollow, David Foster Wallace hypothesized the possible emergence of new literary rebels who are “some weird bunch of anti-rebels … artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’ To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama.”2 With her emphases on filial piety, sincere feelings, and unfettered expressions of such sincere feelings (all of which are considered embarrassing among Korean youth, just as in the US), Shin might very well be the kind of rebellious anti-rebel that Wallace called for in the American context.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:20:14 +0000

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