{"title":"Tabucchi’s ‘Saudade’: Compare to ‘Inquietudine’","authors":"Moonjung Park","doi":"10.29324/jewcl.2023.9.65.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29324/jewcl.2023.9.65.101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the term Saudade as it appears in the work of Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, comparing it to Inquietudine. Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese word associated with that country’s mythology, history, and identity. Since various definitions of Saudade exist among scholars, this paper focuses on Saudade as perceived by Tabucchi. Influenced by Fernando Pessoa’s alter ego, Álvaro de Campos, Tabucchi defined Saudade as follows. First, it is a plural concept that is contagious through experience. The second is Nostos. In ancient Greek literature, Nostos, the heroic epic of sailing the seas and returning home, was imprinted as one of the narratives of Saudade in the history of Portuguese sailing across the Atlantic, where Tabucchi took the idea of wandering, of voyaging, of going far away to unfamiliar places where you don’t know what awaits you, guided by the wind and the waves. The last is an interpretation of Saudade as the avant-garde and futurism. It shattered the past and made us face its fragments. Tabucchi’s conceptualization of Saudade is distinctly different from that of internalized anxiety. While Saudade is a plural concept that can be contagious, internal anxiety is a singular concept that deals with the simple and understated evil of fear of human existence, which is shared by all and is, therefore, not contagious. Also, unlike Saudade, which can be experienced by anyone, but is rooted in Portuguese culture, internal anxiety is a sentiment that transcends nationality, culture, and ideology. In conclusion, Tabucchi completes Inquietudine with Desassossego, a two-way otherness that embodies the inability to live as the inability to exist, with no distinction between subject and object; Nostalgia, the feeling of being in a completed past, to an impossible object; and finally, Osmosis, the interpretation of Saudade by Pessoa’s alter ego Campos.","PeriodicalId":479618,"journal":{"name":"Dongseo bi'gyo munhag jeo'neol","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135084225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing Human Existence through Imitation and Mending: A Comparative Study on the Symbolic Acts in Color Struck and Clothes Laugh","authors":"Heeyeon Tak","doi":"10.29324/jewcl.2023.9.65.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29324/jewcl.2023.9.65.235","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes the symbolic acts of imitation and mending in two plays, Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck and Jeong Kyung-Hwan’s Clothes Laugh. Through this examination, this essay aims to show the most important requirement for finding for one’s self is to shift the focus from external elements, to center on “I, myself,” a process that relies on continuous introspection and self-evaluation of one’s characteristic and identity. Color Struck and Clothes Laugh depict external elements, such as skin color and clothes, causing division and prevailing over shared humanity. Both plays use personification in the name of the play; Color Struck presents the image of colors colliding into each other, and Clothes Laugh describes inanimate objects’ expression of emotion. The main characters in the two plays show a lack of self-awareness and the devaluation of their inner value through their obsession with external representations. The two plays are set in different eras and cultural backgrounds, and the protagonists, Emma and Jasook, express their outward orientation differently. In Color Struck, the harsh racial discrimination of the American South shapes Emma’s self-image and perception of others; Emma does not face her skin as it is, and her valuation even desires to imitate lighter skin colors and specific figures is seen as quite pessimistic and regressive. However, through Emma’s experience, the audience realizes that valuing one’s self and defining one’s identity come from imitating others’ identity or ideology, but requires discovering “I, myself” and living it out. Through Clothes Laugh, readers and viewers realize that negotiating one’s personhood, worth, and identity is accomplished through the independent process of constantly revising, supplementing, and developing one’s self-concept, like the images of the characters in the play.","PeriodicalId":479618,"journal":{"name":"Dongseo bi'gyo munhag jeo'neol","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135084907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}