Abstract
This study focuses on how a rumor reflects a rumor group’s desire and subverts their power relationship in Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Studying rumors in the text helps understand real problems and unconscious desires in the rumor community. Sharing Rumors means that when someone hears and distributes a rumor, he or she takes part in generating the outcome of a group-work and its illusion caused by the group members’ interactions. So, rumors provide a way to understand the desire and paradox of various characters and situations in the text. Studying rumors also helps understand that a rumor is not a sub-language under a main plot but a political language which reflects unconscious desires in a rumor group. A rumor as an informal language is political in that it is engaged with the power relation between the predators and a victim. The rumor afflicting Hannah Baker, the protagonist, is in reality a metonymy of some students’ desire for empowerment and anxiety of the fear of being deprived. Hannah confronts her false rumor by killing herself, but leaving recording tapes, which finally reveal their realities and deprive them of power. This study examines these aspects by using three ways: the relation between rumors and space, the rumors as a camouflage of power, and the subversion of rumors. (Chosun University)
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