“위기 속의 거주”: 메이메이 베르센부르거의 내분비학에 나타난 에코페미니스트 상상력
“Dwelling in Crisis”: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Ecofeminist Imagination in Endocrinology
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This essay explores how Asian American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s experimental lyric poem Endocrinology narrates and responds to the environmental crisis by synthesizing science and poetry. Part memoir, part scientific observation, Endocrinology vividly describes the poet’s personal experience of environmental illness after she was accidentally exposed to a toxic pesticide near her place. Reading Endocrinology with Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “trans-corporeality,” I argue that Berssenbrugge reconceptualizes the body, especially women’s bodies affected by environmental illness, as a trans-corporeal space in which the relationship between human and nonhuman is entangled and affects each other. To illuminate various aspects of environmental risks that permeate our daily lives, Berssenbrugge not only critiques rigid categories between nature and culture, but also seeks to broaden the scope of feminist literature beyond human agency by highlighting the intersections of environmental and gender issues. Navigating the boundaries between the biomedical understanding of environmental risks and the sensory perception of the toxic body, this essay finally suggests that Berssenbrugge’s ecofeminist imagination helps readers to develop arts of noticing in our moment of crisis.
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This essay explores how Asian American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s experimental lyric poem Endocrinology narrates and responds to the environmental crisis by synthesizing science and poetry. Part memoir, part scientific observation, Endocrinology vividly describes the poet’s personal experience of environmental illness after she was accidentally exposed to a toxic pesticide near her place. Reading Endocrinology with Stacy Alaimo’s concept of “trans-corporeality,” I argue that Berssenbrugge reconceptualizes the body, especially women’s bodies affected by environmental illness, as a trans-corporeal space in which the relationship between human and nonhuman is entangled and affects each other. To illuminate various aspects of environmental risks that permeate our daily lives, Berssenbrugge not only critiques rigid categories between nature and culture, but also seeks to broaden the scope of feminist literature beyond human agency by highlighting the intersections of environmental and gender issues. Navigating the boundaries between the biomedical understanding of environmental risks and the sensory perception of the toxic body, this essay finally suggests that Berssenbrugge’s ecofeminist imagination helps readers to develop arts of noticing in our moment of crisis.
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