![]() ![]() The speech act is foregrounded in all three texts it is de-naturalized, deformed, shown as a recitation of prescribed language, and repeatedly interrupted. ![]() Cho and Hosu Kim published in The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007), all of which use the collage form to challenge the expectation that "in life as in story, one event to another" (Frank 97). Drawing on affect studies, I analyze Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982) alongside two essays, by Grace M. While the storytellers discussed by Frank mostly suffer from physical ailments and traumas, I would argue that the chaotic mode of telling also characterizes texts that explore other kinds of traumas, including those related to displacement and shaming experienced by several generations of Koreans and Americans of Korean descent. Next to teleological stories of survival, which "reassure the listener that however bad things look, a happy ending is possible", Frank discusses "the chaos narrative" in which "events are told as the storyteller experiences life: without sequence or discernible causality" (97). ![]() ![]() In The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, sociologist Arthur Frank uses narra-tology to typologize the stories people tell about illness. ![]()
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