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The rhetoric of the bingeeating body: An ethics of mourning in post-Sewol South Korea

Author(s)
Sung, MinKyu
Issued Date
2019-09
DOI
10.1386/macp_00008_7
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/30444
Fulltext
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mcp/2019/00000015/00000003/art00008;jsessionid=3dx69xt480r13.x-ic-live-01
Citation
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL POLITICS, v.15, no.3, pp.385 - 390
Abstract
In this short essay, I critically examine the ‘eat-ins’ protest by South Korean right-wing populists who derided the hunger strikes of the bereaved family after the Sewol ferry incident in April 2014, in which 300 high school teenagers, teachers and crew drowned. This binge-eating spree in public caused an intense controversy about the ethics of mourning for tragedies that critics believe should be empathized among the community members. Engaging in the epideictic function of the protest, an ethics of mourning and liberal tolerance, I argue, drawing from Kenneth Burke’s idea of human motives, that human’s pain cannot be reduced simply to the sheer realm of animality.
Publisher
Intellect Ltd.
ISSN
1740-8296

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