The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning

Social Sciences and Humanities Open

Björn Boman¹ 

[1] Department of Education, Stockholm University, Frescativägen 54, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden;

关键词: South Korea;    Burning;    Haruki Murakami;    Intertextuality;    William Faulkner;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The study focuses on how the South Korean drama/mystery film Burning (2018) intertextually draws from William Faulkner’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and Haruki Murakami’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and related sociohistorical contexts. Burning does quite impressionistically and freely draw from these two short stories as well as adding new features, while simultaneously removing much of the core of Faulkner’s work and some of Murakami’s counterpart. By means of intertextual borrowing and re-contextualization, it has used the global discursive field and consequently hybridized and localized elements and themes from American-Western and Japanese works and discourses to perhaps make them better suited for the South Korean context. Burning has included and excluded various elements from both short stories but emphasized class and gender issues. These two major elements reflect upon the structural inequalities in the contemporary South Korean society.

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