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The Carnivalization of Transidentity Narrative in the Comedy Film Johnny Keep Walking!

  • 인문논총
  • 2025, 68(), pp.335~353
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : August 30, 2025
  • Accepted : October 11, 2025
  • Published : October 31, 2025

XUE-GE WANG 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper proposes a narrative approach termed “carnivalesque transidentity narrative” by integrating theories of transidentity and Bakhtinian carnival, using the film Johnny Keep Walking! as a case study. This narrative mode takes the protagonist’s identity transformation as the driving force of the plot, combining it with the carnivalesque dynamics of crowning and decrowning to construct a carnivalesque narrative context and propel the development of the storyline. Through this integration, identity transformation provides internal logic for the carnivalesque narrative structure, allowing the story to unfold simultaneously on the levels of individual psychological change and the symbolic deconstruction of social power structures, thus presenting a carnivalesque sense of the world.

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