비판적 포스트휴머니즘으로 살만 루시디 읽기:『악마의 시』에 나타난 휴먼/포스트휴먼

• 영문명: Human/Posthuman in Salman Rushdie‘s The Satanic Verses with a Approach of Critical Posthumanism
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 성정혜(Sung, Junghye)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제35집, 29~54쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.30

영문 초록

It has become a more and more complicated and challenging task to define the concept of “human” since different philosophical theories have been adding new meanings to or altering the existing concept of the word. The boundaries between human and non/inhuman beings are being continuously blurred and repositioned due to the rapid development of science and technology. As a consequence of these changes a more specific or proper definition of the concept "human" has become necessary. This paper addresses the question of how one of Rushdie's novels, released in the 20th century but not regarded as a Science Fiction, sees a human after Michel Foucault asserted “the death of man” and how the antihuman aspects and the contemporary social discourses in the novel can be regarded as already being involved with an idea beyond humanism. In The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie questioned the fundamental ways of looking at human beings, which eventually revealed an antihuman perspective that encompasses forcefully homogenized subjects, socially discriminated and oppressed minorities, and so on. This paper analyzes two main characters' metamorphosis into an angel and a demon respectively, from the perspective of embodiment and reflexivity which Katherine Hayles regards as a critical process of cybernetics development. This reading will help to see The Satanic Verses through a posthuman angle, from which point we'll be better positioned to suggest a path to investigate the concept of human represented in the non SF novels.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 근대 인간의 해체 및 재규정: 안티-휴먼/포스트휴먼

Ⅲ. 몸과 정신의 이원 불가능성: 신체와 신체화

IV. 주체의 유동적 경계와 구성성: 반복 루프의 재귀성

V. 나가며

키워드

Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Anti-human Embodiment Reflexivity 살만 루시디 악마의 시 반-휴먼 신체성 재귀성