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This study examines the work of mourning through storytelling in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone (2007). Ruhl’s play delineates the essential character of mourning as something that everyone deserves whoever they are. Jean happens to witness the untimely death of a stranger in a cafe, answers the dead man’s cell phone, and goes on to mourn for him. The deceased person, Gordon, was a capitalist businessman illegally trading human organs. Deviating from the traditional Freudian mourning that prioritizes effective object change and libidinal reinvestment, Jean performs the work of mourning by telling stories of her own fabulation the surviving members of the dead man’s family. By strorytelling, as a means of mourning in this play, those who share the stories find themselves participating in the work of mourning. Jean’s stories let them confront their loss in the face of Gordon’s death and conjure up alternative meanings in their relationships. Through this journey to remembering and sharing stories together, they recover fragmented relationships and respond with ethical responsibility toward the others, fostering hospitality and reciprocal recognition.

목차

I. 들어가며
II. 애도의 당위
III. ‘이야기하기’의 애도
IV. 나오며
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Abstract

키워드

저자

• 이현경 [ Hyunkyung Lee | 전남대학교 강사 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820