매기 지의 홍수에 체현된 기후변화의 정동적 지각과 축축한 상호침투의 윤리
Affective Perceptions of Climate Change and Ethics of Damp Interpenetration in Maggie Gee’s The Flood
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This paper aims to explore how Maggie Gee’s The Flood makes readers experience the half-drowned city after the great flood due to climate change, in multi-sensory and affective ways, and suggests our ethical responsibility for others, grounded on the fact that all beings, including human species and other species, are persistently interpenetrated and intricately interconnected. The conflicts between different groups deepen in the city messy with chilly and damp buildings, shabby boats on the dirty water, and the terror of infectious disease. The flood, however, turns out to reveal the absolute relatedness between humans and the affinity between human bodies and nonhuman bodies such as those of animals and plants and even the heavenly bodies. By depicting urban foxes alert to the imminent massive tidal waves ahead of humans, and the enormous water materially embodied like a living creature, this novel emphasizes that nonhumans are active agents with powerful agency, and requires humans to be humble. Locating all the characters in the contact zone between various families, The Flood implies that the Anthropocene can be thought on the massive scale of the Earth and yet eventually leads to the question of having a home to return to.
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This paper aims to explore how Maggie Gee’s The Flood makes readers experience the half-drowned city after the great flood due to climate change, in multi-sensory and affective ways, and suggests our ethical responsibility for others, grounded on the fact that all beings, including human species and other species, are persistently interpenetrated and intricately interconnected. The conflicts between different groups deepen in the city messy with chilly and damp buildings, shabby boats on the dirty water, and the terror of infectious disease. The flood, however, turns out to reveal the absolute relatedness between humans and the affinity between human bodies and nonhuman bodies such as those of animals and plants and even the heavenly bodies. By depicting urban foxes alert to the imminent massive tidal waves ahead of humans, and the enormous water materially embodied like a living creature, this novel emphasizes that nonhumans are active agents with powerful agency, and requires humans to be humble. Locating all the characters in the contact zone between various families, The Flood implies that the Anthropocene can be thought on the massive scale of the Earth and yet eventually leads to the question of having a home to return to.
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