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Russell Banks (1940~), a prolific and bestselling American writer, is widely acclaimed for his realistic and bruising characters who are locked in class and race conflict and attempt to escape the brutal existence and a pervasive anxiety about money. Indeed, his novels have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success. In his sixth novel, The Sweet Hereafter, revolving around a school bus accident, likewise, Banks reveals the various ways ordinary American individuals and their community as a whole react to the tragic event. This paper examines Banks's portrayal of individual healing and communal redemption in terms of guilt, blame, justice, and recovery. In The Sweet Hereafter which raises the uncomfortable question ‘who is to blame for a tragic accident causing the loss of innocent children?’ Banks's unique, realistic, and limited narrative structure with the perspectives of four individual narrators such as a school bus driver, an eyewitness, a New York City lawyer, and a fourteen-year-old survivor successfully makes it possible for the reader to fully understand how differently individuals cope with grief and loss from the tragedy and their lives can be changed.

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• Heejung Cha [ Chosun University ]

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820