현대 여성시에 나타난 식인(食人)의 윤리와 정치 -면(麵)을 중심으로

Abstract

In this study, ethics and politics of cannibalism presented in modern female poems were examined by relating to noodles. To examine how the noodles are implicated in poems and the meaning that poets try to say through eating behaviors, Bourdieu and Deleuze’s discussions were referenced. Bourdieu said food is a mechanism that creates and recreates the sexism and Deleuze suggested rhizome or becoming- that would reinforce physical literacy to get out of this dominant system. Rhizome is a method of dissolving hierarchical aggregate and drawing the line of flight of molecular creation, and it is presented in female poems by relating to the noodles. In some female poems, food is materialized into jjajangmyeon (black bean sauce noodles), fried noodles, kalguksu (knife-cut noodles) and noodles, and eating the food is performed when consciousness is broken. Therefore, it may result in failure (CHOI, J.R), meeting strangers (HEO, S.K), arriving at an ambiguous state (JEONG, G.B), or result in spilling the food (LEE, G.H). During the process, a landscape of strange road-noodle is unfolded where bodies are mixed with past and present, myth and mundane world, and life and death, where ego is mixed with others, and where countless others are co-existed. Poets try to commune with others in that boundary. At this moment, road-noodle functions as a type of the line of flight to run away from the oppressive reality, and refuses colonization of malesㆍcapital while simultaneously shows poets’ ethical spirit of resistance who seek to share and communicate. On the other hand, an opposition between eating and being eaten sometimes releases destructive energy in poems. Preference of food that is materialized into ramen, noodle strips, spaghetti is mixed with other different series to function to shake the split line of binary opposition violently. That is the branch where history and civilization meet (SHIN, H.J), chunk of dough (KIM, S.W), red motorway (KIM H.S), face of others (LEE W). Eating by these cannibalistic subjects is different from eating by masculine subjects that make others to return to the coordinate of identity, it stays in a gap between ego and others, showing a movement that opposes subjectivation. As this movement is a poetic energy that creates new body and birth of sense, it shows political esthetics that females, as a minority who causes a rift in the senses of group, write poems. In female poems, the noodles response to the capital, nation, reason, and logic of rationality that capture individual lives into a fixed circuit while simultaneously function as a type of the line of flight to escape from hierarchical authority. It has significances in that it shows an opportunity of birth of new life after getting out of the major and dominant flow while simultaneously looks back the eating-being eaten method that preserves lives.