『릴리쓰의 아이들』에서 읽는 포스트페미니즘 의제들

• 영문명: The Agenda of Postfeminism in Lilith"s Brood
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 노승희(Seung-Hee Roh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제11집 2호, 201~224쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  Seeing differences among women as being constitutive of the category of sexual difference, Postfeminism starts to work with the issues left unresolved by Feminism; it purports to address the complicated operations of power and violence on women, taking account of differences among women seriously. Postfeminism is thus less concerned with the question what woman is or desires. It is more engaged in working through the multiple nodes of power and inventing the strategic vocabularies that would bring the agency of women across the borders of multiple differences into the making of a better world for each and every woman"s subjective becoming. The agenda of Postfeminism is well articulated in Octavia Butler"s SF trilogy Lilith"s Brood that depicts a world of posthuman, interspecies creation, in which differences matter in individual as well as collective becomings. Lilith"s Brood starts with a warning against the human, especially men"s, hierarchical behaviors, which are intolerant of differences and thus endanger the continuity of the human species and its civilization. Eventually Butler"s trilogy envisions an alternative style of life in which such radically heterogeneous beings as the Oankali, an alien species, and the humans come together in building a mutually enabling symbiotic alliance. Here what matters is "body knowledges," to use Butler"s words. The body is not a fixed entity but a mutable form, constructed of heterogeneous elements which are assembled and reassembled by genetic modifications in intra-species crossbreeding. The body knowledge principle is explored first in Lilith"s role of a monstrous mother and again with the "Constructs" like Akin and Jodahs, who are posthuman hybrid subjects in Lilith"s Brood. For them, the self and the other do not remain exclusive to each other; they form a mutually enabling symbiotic bloc, allowing each other to become and grow. Butler"s xenogenetic characters exemplify the politically enforced collective subject which Rosi Braidotti advocates as the ethical agent of Postfeminism that generates metamorphoses beyond gender politics. Life surely changes as the body changes.

목차

Ⅰ. 페미니즘과 포스트페미니즘: 차이의 정치학
Ⅱ. 의제 Ⅰ: 경계를 횡단하는 몸과 몸 지식
Ⅲ. 의제 Ⅱ - 포스트페미니즘의 주체와 공생적인 생성의 윤리
Ⅳ. 글을 나가며
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Abstract

키워드

옥타비아 버틀러 포스트페미니즘 차이 이종교배 괴물적인 몸 공생적인 되기 식수 크리스테바 브라이도티 Octavia Butler Lilith" s Brood Postfeminism Differences Crossbreeding Monstrous Body Symbiotic Becoming Cixous Kristeva Braidotti