In his article “Eating and Suffering in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian” Won-Chung Kim examines how Han investigates suffering through the topic of food and eating. Kim shows that The Vegetarian is a work that thoroughly investigates both what constitutes suffering and what role carno-phallogocentric thinking can play in such suffering: suffering becomes in the novel a psychological, physical, and spiritual effect of dietary resistance to male-dominated Korean society. After offering a working definition of sufferings, Kim argues how the suffering caused by Yeong-hye’s refusal to follow the reigning norms of the meat eating, patriarchal society disintegrates the intactness of her personhood as a woman and a vegetarian. By metamorphosing her into a “given” face of a suffering victim that haunts us, Yeong-hye provocatively challenges us to reframe the current violent structure of our eating. Won-Chung Kim, "Eating and Suffering in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian” page 2 of 10 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.5 (2019): Special Issue Suffering, Endurance, Understanding. Ed. Simon Estok, Douglas Berman, and Frank Stevenson

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韩康《素食主义者》中的饮食与苦难

金元忠在他的文章《汉康的素食主义者中的饮食与痛苦》中，探讨了汉人如何通过饮食这一主题来研究痛苦。金表明素食主义者是一部作品，它彻底研究了痛苦的构成以及食肉动物中心思想在这种痛苦中的作用：在小说中，痛苦成为饮食对男性主导的韩国社会的心理，生理和精神影响。在提供了痛苦的可行定义之后，金恩指出，由于父女拒绝遵守肉食的统治规范而造成的痛苦，父权制社会使她作为女人和素食者的人格完整无缺。通过使她变成困扰我们的受难受害者的“给定”面孔，英慧挑衅性地挑战我们，以重新构造我们目前饮食的暴力结构。Kim Won-Chung Kim，“在韩康的素食主义者中饮食” 2 CLCWeb：比较文学与文化21.5（2019）：特刊《苦难，耐力，理解》 Ed。Simon Estok，Douglas Berman和Frank Stevenson