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The End of History and the Novelistic Haiku in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
Seunggu Lew(Seunggu Lew) 한국아메리카학회 2023 美國學論集 Vol.55 No.1
This essay attempts to investigate the idea of haiku presented in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega. In the novella, a defense intellectual named Richard Elster proposes a theory of the end of history and suggests a peculiar vision of “haiku war” that he believes may help to retake the future in the face of post-9/11 global challenges exemplified in the Iraq War. Elster’s conceptualization of the omega point of history and haiku war evokes Alexander Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel and, particularly, his theory of post-historical art form inspired from his trip to Japan. Point Omega is a novelistic haiku, through which DeLillo interrogates and discloses the desire to escape from history and moral responsibility beneath Elster’s grand theories of history and war. In his ekphrasis of Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho, a video installation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, DeLillo points to the possibility that his quaint poetics of literary asceticism and ahistorical spirituality could steer us toward what is truly real and, paradoxically, historical. DeLillo’s novelistic haiku examines the inherent complicity between art and politics in order to imagine the future of art relevant to historical realities.
“Core Dislocation in the Personality”
Lew, Seunggu(류승구) 새한영어영문학회 2017 새한영어영문학 Vol.59 No.2
In her earlier novels about Cold War frontiers, Joan Didion has developed her signature style of minimalist writing attentive to a bare narrative surface. This essay will try to show that in The Last Thing He Wanted, her latest novel about an obscure incident related to Iran-Contra, Didion deploys her minimalist narrative style, not to reduce political realities to romantic personalities as she has often been criticized to do so in her previous novels, but this time to reveal the cost of romantic self-delusion, certain fundamental dislocation in the personalities of Cold War romancers who have lived too completely immersed in the perennial myth of the New Frontier. In The Last Thing He Wanted, Didion no longer idolizes romancers’ personalities immune from history and political milieu. Instead, Didion reveals that their dislocated personalities are nothing other than casualties of history.
( Seunggu Lew ) 한국현대영미소설학회 2015 현대영미소설 Vol.22 No.3
This essay investigates how Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel of revolutionary apocalypse Almanac of the Dead, envisions the alternative politics of Native American spirituality that could challenge the Cold War regime of cartographical imagination in which Native Americans are reduced to Third World others. In order to disrupt and dismantle the Cold War geopolitical continuum from Tucson, Arizona to Tuxtla in the Chiapas state of Mexico, Silko implies that a spiritual connection between the two symbolic locations must be recognized and rebuilt by the indigenous peoples of the American continent. In understanding the current Cold War geopolitical coalition between the imperial center of the North and the Third World periphery of the South as an extended history of the ancient spiritual conspiracy between European sorcerer-cannibals and Native American sorcerer-sacrificers, Silko proposes an alternative vision of international tribalism and spiritual global connectedness that could reject and transcend the false choices of the Cold War paradigm, whether it is Marxism or capitalism.
A War of Stories, Spirits, and Conspiracies in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Lew, Seunggu(류승구) 새한영어영문학회 2016 새한영어영문학 Vol.58 No.1
This essay investigates the ways in which Silko, in Almanac of the Dead, attempts to expand the Native American storytelling tradition in order to facilitate the empowerment of political and narrative authority that has long been denied to the indigenous people in America, especially under the paranoid logic of American Cold War anti-communism. Subsuming Cold War history under the ancient history of Native American war for the land, Silko impregnates the mode of conspiracy narrative with Native spirituality and creates a genre of “revolutionary entertainment,” which, refusing to read Native American history in terms of victimization and pessimism, unapologetically revels in, rather than meekly or defensively exploits, the paranoid imagination and apocalyptic fantasy that characterize most white Cold War paranoid narratives. In Almanac, Silko unbridles the paranoid energy of Cold War conspiracy narrative and channels it into a cosmic narrative explosion of revolutionary fantasies and prophecies.
Post-Cold War and Native American Spirituality
Seunggu Lew 한국아메리카학회 2009 美國學論集 Vol.41 No.1
Published two years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead addresses the New Age Move ment increasingly popularized and embraced by mostly white middle-class Americans from the late 80s to the early 90s when the Cold War came to a dramatic end Intervening in this historical juncture where post-Cold War uncertainty fuels the popular demand for Native American spirituality, Silko's novel reclaims Native American tribal spirituality as an alternative channel for radical geographical imagination, a post-Cold War global coalition of Third World subjects and Native Americans who have been systematically marginalized and silenced during the Cold war In New Agers' consumerist fetishization of Native spirituality, Silko recognizes a tendency to emphasize what its practitioners refer to as "personal transformation and spiritual growth" The novel strongly suggests that the New Age's "fixation on self-discovery and self healing" in its appropriation of Native spirituality resuscitates the old Cold War discourse of "mental hygiene" that promotes self-help techniques like positive thinking, mind control, and stress management Through the journey of the Laguna Pueblo protagonist from the discourse of "mental hygiene" to Native American tribal spirituality, Silko points to a post-Cold War spiritual and political vision of global connectedness based on the revitalized tribal spirituality, a point further illustrated in the last part of the novel, "One World, Many Tribes"