@article{ART003146127},
author={Kim Jungha},
title={Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2024},
volume={81},
number={4},
pages={483-509},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Jungha
TI - Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2024
VL - 81
IS - 4
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 483
EP - 509
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This article explores the relationship between critical minimalism and minimalist style. Critical minimalism, or reparative reading, is a key hermeunetic method in 21st -century criticism. It seeks affective knowledge that finds relief in suspension from history, reducing the scale of critique. How, then, might the style of minimalism, which has built its own aesthetic history since the early 20th century, provide insight into critical minimalism? The paper focuses on 1970s-80s American minimalist literature, analyzing how its conservatism, shaped by compromise and reparation, ultimately reaffirmed domestic white supremacy and international American exceptionalism.
Raymond Carver’s short stories illustrate these discussions. However, a closer look at repetition in Carver’s works reveals an underlying anxiety that resists the logic of reparation, highlighting minimalism’s dialectical movement.
The conclusion suggests that critical minimalism can “style” criticism by historicizing the language of reparation and reflecting on the anxiety within its rupture.
KW - Minimalism;Reparative Reading;Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick;Raymond Carver;Anxiety;Vietnam War
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
ER -
Kim Jungha. (2024). Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(4), 483-509.
Kim Jungha. 2024, "Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.81, no.4 pp.483-509. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha "Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81.4 pp.483-509 (2024) : 483.
Kim Jungha. Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety. 2024; 81(4), 483-509. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha. "Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.4 (2024) : 483-509.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha. Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(4), 483-509. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha. Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2024; 81(4) 483-509. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha. Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety. 2024; 81(4), 483-509. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
Kim Jungha. "Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.4 (2024) : 483-509.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.81.4.202411.483
