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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/american-violence-world-litera
 ture/
SUMMARY:American Violence\, World Literature
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute and the Reischauer Instit
 ute of Japanese Studies\nIn the first half of the talk\, I uncover how the
  convention of resolving class conflict with violent spectacle\, which wil
 l seem run-of-the-mill to anyone with a Netflix subscription\, is a singul
 ar legacy of American literary history. In the second half\, I consider wo
 rks by Haruki Murakami and Lee Chang-dong that pay explicit tribute to Wil
 liam Faulkner. For the Japanese and Koreans who experienced modernity as a
 n involuntary state to be overcome\, the American modernist’s violent na
 rrative solutions proved compelling precisely because the Americans\, havi
 ng played their own furious games of catch-up with the Europeans\, had exp
 ertise in managing what Thomas Hardy called “the ache of modernity.” T
 his talk is excerpted from a book manuscript provisionally titled American
  Violence\, World Literature.\n
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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