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This paper explores the ambivalence in the political aspect of Paul Auster’s Sunset Park. Set in the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis that has led to a significant amount of house foreclosures and the ensuing economic recession throughout the early 2010s, the novel creates an alternative space of Foucauldian heterotopia going against the logic of financial capitalism behind the Crisis. By refusing two kinds of optimistic view on history altogether – one that financial capitalism promises and the other that the American ideal of infinite progress explicates – the novel tries to redefine the political significance of “the here and now” free from the over-optimistic historicity. In doing so, however, the novel reveals quite an ironical impulse of ahistoricity, which is mostly marked by Auster’s trademarks of coincidence and chance. Its narrative heavily depends upon the idea of how coincidence and fate can change the course of life, thereby implying that the main driving force behind history – both personal and national – can be as much random as rational. This process of incorporating ahistorical randomness to the novel ends up undermining its own political premise: The whole project begins with the political impulse of criticizing contemporary American society dictated by the financial capitalist idea economically and the American belief of progress culturally, but it ends with a highly apolitical notion that all the scars you get from life can be not only random but also somewhat helpful for your inner growth.

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군도의 정치학 = Archipelagic politics : Hawai’ian sovereignty and settler narrative : 하와이 주권론과 정착민 서사 강우성 p. 5-35

『선셋파크』에 나타난 역사의식과 탈역사적 세계관의 충돌 = The ideological clash between historicity and ahistoricity in Sunset Park 권지은 p. 37-62

켄 리우의 「굿 헌팅」에 재현된 철도 제국주의와 동양적 스팀펑크 사이보그 = Railway imperialism and Asian steampunk cyborg in Ken Liu’s “Good Hunting” 김사영 p. 63-85

고차 지향적 서사 전략과 화자의 지향적 변신 = The higher order intentional narrative strategy and the narrator’s intentional metamorphosis : The Human Stain revisited from cognitive criticism. 1 : 인지비평적 관점에서 『인간의 오점』 다시 읽기. 1 김준년 p. 87-111

『원어민』의 한국 음식과 식사의 공간 = Korean food and the space of culinary consumption in Native Speaker 설연지 p. 113-139

가족 아카이브의 재현과 재창조 = Visual representation and regeneration of family archives in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic : 앨리슨 벡델의 『재미있는 집』 송미경 p. 141-172

한 시대의 종말을 상징하는 등장인물들의 이름 = Characters’ names as the symbol of the end of an era : Willa Cather’s “Coming, Aphrodite!” : 윌라 캐더의 「아프로디테가 온다!」 이승복 p. 173-199

Reimagining decadence and building queer relationalities in Richard Bruce Nugent’s “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” and “Geisha Man” Seohyun Kim p. 201-231

Haunting landscapes : ecogothic echoes of trauma and recovery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Hakyoung Ahn p. 233-252