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FROM TRAUMA LITERATURE TO HEALING NOVELS
- Authors: Mavleeva D.V.1, Pokholkova E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 11(892) (2024)
- Pages: 141-146
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/292358
- ID: 292358
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine South Korean healing literature. Healing novels, or Korean-style hygge, are books about living in comfort and healing the soul, a literature of psychological healing and consolation that has replaced the literature of trauma. In the course of the work, three of the most famous healing novels were analyzed: “Welcome to the Hyunamdong Bookshop” by Hwang Boreum (2022), “Uncanny Convenience Store” by Kim Hoyeon (2021), and “Marigold Mind Laundry” by Yoon Jeongeun (2023). As a result of the study, we came to the conclusion that psychological escapism, acting as a productive adaptation strategy, helps the characters, and with them the readers, to find solace and escape from the problems that concern them or look at them from a new angle.
About the authors
Darya Vladimirovna Mavleeva
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: selezneva_dv@mail.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Languages of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Moscow State Linguistic University
Russian FederationEkaterina Anatolievna Pokholkova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: pokholkova@gmail.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Moscow State Linguistic University
Russian FederationReferences
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