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Paper Title
The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body
Authors
Nivedita Pandey , Prof. Pratima Chaitanya
Keywords
hyperreality and simulacra, digital gaze, mediated body, male gaze, vegetal metamorphosis
Abstract
This study examines the transformation of Yeong-hye in Han Kang's The Vegetarian by reading her bodily withdrawal as a form of hyperreal mediation rather than as a purely psychological or pathological condition. Although earlier criticism has largely approached the novel through feminist or psychoanalytic frameworks, this paper places it within a broader conversation between literary analysis and media theory. Drawing on Jean Baudrillard's account of hyperreality and Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze, the analysis suggests that Yeong-hye's rejection of food and social norms gradually becomes a mediated spectacle. Her experience is shaped, in particular, by the brother-in-law's voyeuristic attention and his visual recording of her body, through which her lived presence is displaced by a reproducible image. Ecofeminist perspectives, especially those of Gaard and Plumwood, further clarify how this withdrawal can be read as a resistance to patriarchal forms of control that reduce the female body to an object of use and display. At the same time, the paper argues that Yeong-hye's final silence and physical refusal reveal the limits of hyperreal capture. Even within systems of intense mediation, her embodied resistance asserts a form of phenomenological autonomy, challenging the dominance of visual and digital representations over lived experience.
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"The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body", IJCRT - International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (www.ijcrt.org), ISSN:2320-2882, Vol.14, Issue 2, page no.f51-f57, February 2026, Available :https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2602593.pdf
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Pandey, N., & Chaitanya, P. (2026). The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body. International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, 14(2), f51-f57. https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2602593
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Pandey, Nivedita, and Pratima Chaitanya. "The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body." International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, vol. 14, no. 2, 2026, pp. f51-f57, https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2602593.
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Pandey, Nivedita, and Pratima Chaitanya. "The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body." International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts 14, no. 2 (2026): f51-f57. https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2602593.
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N. Pandey and P. Chaitanya, "The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body," IJCRT, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. f51-f57, Feb. 2026.
Vancouver — biomedical
Pandey N, Chaitanya P. The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body. IJCRT. 2026 Feb;14(2):f51-f57.
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Pandey N, Chaitanya P. The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body. IJCRT. 2026;14(2):f51-f57. Accessed at https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2602593
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@article{IJCRT2602593,
author = {Nivedita Pandey and Pratima Chaitanya},
title = {The Digital Gaze and Hyperreality in Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Obsession and the Mediated Body},
journal = {International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts},
volume = {14},
number = {2},
pages = {f51-f57},
year = {2026},
month = {February},
issn = {2320-2882},
url = {https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2602593}
}
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T2 - International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts
JA - IJCRT
VL - 14
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PY - 2026
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