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A Study on Self-Care Narrative of Recent Young Adult SF - Centering on Multiverse Imagination

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2024, 30(1), pp.81-103
  • DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2024.30.1.003
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : January 12, 2024
  • Accepted : February 19, 2024
  • Published : February 28, 2024

Choi Bae Eun 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focused on the increase in self-care narratives based on multiverse imagination in children & young adult SF, examining the pattern and considering its significance and limitations. The target works deal with self-care events that they go through while meeting 'themselves' in another universe, featuring female adolescents who are obsessed with thoughts that bother them. The journey to the self-care process is similar, but the aspect of the relationship with themselves is different. In Day of Daku and Children at the End of Red Thread they recognize themselves through a confrontation with "I" that bothers myself', and they have the courage to embrace themselves based on their confidence in themselves in the future, as you can see from the expressions like Your universe is my universe and In fact, only one person was enough. The reason for the increase in self-care narratives in recent children & young adult novels seems to be related to the reality that everyday small trauma pressures adolescents and makes them have negative egos. In this situation, SF's multiverse imagination does not lock "me" and "my world" inside, but rather contributes to making self-care events exciting and dynamic by embodying another individual and universe, otherwise, they could be made static and ideological. It also provides the imagination enabling a more three-dimensional and objective insight into "I". These works suggest that SF can be used as a more diverse storytelling technique as well as a device that symbolizes a future society. However, there is a limitation that they represent the problems with teenagers superficially, and narrow the multiverse imagination to something more fantastic than scientific by solving situations difficult to explain scientifically with fantastic motifs.

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