소설 <페미토피아>에서 추구하는 이상향

Abstract

This novel can be appreciated as the significant utopia novel describing the highly developed cultural society with remarkable imagination from a view of eco-feminism by establishing the time setting of late in the 21th century and spatial background of beautiful island. The world of novel is the eco-feminism, macroscopically the utopia that ecologism and feminism were combined, in other words, it tries to create the utopia with a purpose to solve two problems of each women and nature by balance and harmony. As a result, the utopia for woman as the civilized nation harmonized with nature ecosystem was established, but women rather repressed men in the community under matriarchal system leaded by women. Thus, as an alternative, though patriarch system was remained, the hierarchy of men and women was not organized, so the ideal village in which residents live happily and harmoniously without suppression was suggested. While the writer aims at the ecologism nation where the nature ecosystem and the future culture were harmonized, on the other hand, he imagine the new utopia in which nature, culture, human, men and women can survive together by establishing the 鄕村(Old Country). A new understanding of traditional value of keeping a lineage and respecting ancestors functions to reveal the problem of a matriarchal society in the novel. This novel may be consequently referred to as the novel to explore the alternative utopia with highlighting the several problems after the ecofeminism was established in order to overcome the ecological crisis; women and nature ecosystem were damaged and impaired by patriarchal system, capitalism or a certain power structure. The writer suggests that the true utopia can not be accomplished simply by establishing the feminism. And also he shows the prospect that such a world can not be established until the harmonies of human and nature, men and women are accomplished all together while preserving the patriarchy and respecting ancestors.