스위프트의 “배설적 상상”에 나타난 여성, 몸, 소비
Swift’s “Excremental Vision” and the Female Body Consuming and Consumed
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Jonathan Swift’s “excremental vision,” the hallmark of his critique of the metropolitan chain of consumption and its excrements, is materialized through and onto the body of the low Other: women, in particular London prostitutes, and the urban poor. Swift at once repeats and repeals contemporary misogynist and anti-capitalist discourse on consumer economy, which typically posits the female body as the agent of consumption of goods, food, and sexuality and thereby places it in a metonymic relation to its wastes. He pushes this metonymy to the extreme in “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” and “The Progress of Beauty,” where the body of a diseased London prostitute is seen literally being transmuted into excrement. However, this is less to inveigh against (over-)consuming females, than to lay bare the greater chain of consumption in which the diseased and poor are being “consumed,” rather than consuming. The London prostitute’s body is the “historicized” body of the low Other, situated in parallel with those of the Irish poor in Swift’s Irish pamphlets and A Modest Proposal. By literalizing the metropolitan chain of consumption, Swift accuses the English body politic of preying on female, diseased and poor bodies and reducing them to its excrements.
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Jonathan Swift’s “excremental vision,” the hallmark of his critique of the metropolitan chain of consumption and its excrements, is materialized through and onto the body of the low Other: women, in particular London prostitutes, and the urban poor. Swift at once repeats and repeals contemporary misogynist and anti-capitalist discourse on consumer economy, which typically posits the female body as the agent of consumption of goods, food, and sexuality and thereby places it in a metonymic relation to its wastes. He pushes this metonymy to the extreme in “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” and “The Progress of Beauty,” where the body of a diseased London prostitute is seen literally being transmuted into excrement. However, this is less to inveigh against (over-)consuming females, than to lay bare the greater chain of consumption in which the diseased and poor are being “consumed,” rather than consuming. The London prostitute’s body is the “historicized” body of the low Other, situated in parallel with those of the Irish poor in Swift’s Irish pamphlets and A Modest Proposal. By literalizing the metropolitan chain of consumption, Swift accuses the English body politic of preying on female, diseased and poor bodies and reducing them to its excrements.
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