@article{ART002461243},
author={Joo, Kee Wha},
title={Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2019},
volume={32},
number={1},
pages={207-233}
TY - JOUR
AU - Joo, Kee Wha
TI - Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2019
VL - 32
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 207
EP - 233
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This paper considers the causes of ‘multiple chemical sensitivity’(MCS) or ‘environmental illness’(EI) of Carol White in Todd Haynes’s Safe to be a material-discursive environment represented in the film. The film, I argue, suggests that this symptom is a material-discursive phenomena created by the inter-penetration and entanglement of culture-body-nature. Through gender, racial, social and cultural discourses, previous studies have explored social and political toxicity factors such as patriarchy, possessive individualism and consumerism as possible causes to Carol’s symptoms. The body is a space in which material and discourse operate simultaneously. Various material-discursive forces and lines transform her body and life through trans-corporeal movement through Carol’s body. While previous studies have focused on the cultural mechanism of Carol’s bodily transformation, in this paper I will reinterpret such process of transformation from the perspective of new materialism, such as Karen Barad’s ‘agential realism’ and ‘intra-action,’ and Stacy Alaimo's ‘trans-corporeality.’
KW - Todd Haynes;Safe;new materialism;intra-action;trans-corporeality;multiple chemical sensitivity(MCS);environmental illness (EI)
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Joo, Kee Wha. (2019). Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(1), 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. 2019, "Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.32, no.1 pp.207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha "Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism" Journal of Modern English Drama 32.1 pp.207-233 (2019) : 207.
Joo, Kee Wha. Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism. 2019; 32(1), 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. "Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.1 (2019) : 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(1), 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2019; 32(1) 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism. 2019; 32(1), 207-233.
Joo, Kee Wha. "Todd Haynes's Safe in the Context of New Materialism" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.1 (2019) : 207-233.
