페퇴츠 언드라쉬(Petőcz András)의 <노랑 꽃 아내(Sárga virág a feleségem)>에 나타나는 에코페미니즘 연구

Abstract

Published in 2005, Petőcz András’ Sárga virág a feleségem is the first work of eco-feminism in Hungary that approaches the eco-environmental pollution problems in the contemporary society in a feminist perspective. Eco-discourse was introduced very late into Hungary's literary circles, considering that the literary works on eco-discourse began to be published in the 1930s in South Korea. This is ascribable to the fact that the socialist system was maintained until 1989, restricting the free selection of materials or subjects in literary works in Hungary.I In his Sárga virág a feleségem, Petőcz András grasps women and nature in the same network of meanings, saying that eco-environmental pollution has been caused by the patriarchal social system and women discrimination since the post-industrial society. According to him, women have been discriminated with the formation of a male-dominated society, as nature has been devastated by the mass production following capitalist development. His solution is that men and women should cooperate with each other to abolish discrimination against women and thus ultimately to lead to the solution of environmental pollution. In the patriarchal society, women face multi-layered alienation. In his work, a wife experiences alienation from her husband and mother-in-law and the society. The female alienation is symbolized by the wife that is gradually changing into a plant in the veranda of an apartment surrounded by concrete walls. Alienated from her family members and the society, she has a touch of jaundice in her face, is transformed into a plant, and finally meets her death. This shows that women experience gradual destruction like the nature that is destroyed little by little in the contemporary society. The motif of transformation into plants is connected to the eco-feminism that identifies nature with women and simultaneously to the Hungarian folk belief that grasps women and plants in the same network of meanings.