Być kobietą czy być rośliną? O formach podmiotowości w Wegetariance Han Kang
To Be a Woman or to Be a Plant? Forms of Subjectivity in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Summary/Abstract: Examining Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian, Jakubowicz-Prokop brings together two contextualizing perspectives, namely the position of women in Korean culture as seen mostly in contemporary literature, and the role of plants as presented in Western philosophy. The main goal of this article is to explain the protagonist’s transformation as a process of becoming-a-plant – a process that presents the only possible form of freedom in a world of rigorous gender roles and a dualistic concept of reality. Becoming-a-plant is portrayed as a way of being that eludes the metaphysical tradition and presents an attempt to rethink the subject anew.

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