메리 셸리의 『최후의 인간』에서 인구감소된 지구를 상상하기
Imagining the Depopulated Earth in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
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이 논문은 흔히 재난 서사 혹은 전염병 서사로 읽혀 온 메리 셸리의 최후의 인간을 인구감소와 동식물 재생의 서사로 읽는다. 『최후의 인간』은 지구가 비인간화되고 동물의 것이 되는 이야기이다. 인구수가 극단적으로 감소된 지구는 재생된 비인간 동식물의 삶으로 풍요로워진다. 이 논문은 『최후의 인간』이 인간종 파멸의 서사일 뿐 아니라 인간종의 절멸 이후 지구에서 벌어지는 생태학적 변화에 대한 서사이기도 하다고 주장한다. 『최후의 인간』은 지구가 한정적이고 손상될 수 있는 시스템이라는 동시대 말서스의 환경론적 통찰을 끝까지 밀어붙이는 작품이다. 이를 통해 『최후의 인간』은 인류의 존속이 지구에 끼치고 있는 생태학적 영향의 성격과 의미를 다시 생각한다.
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This article reconceptualizes Mary Shelley’s The Last Man as a depopulation/repopulation narrative, rather than a disaster or plague narrative. The Last Man, as a narrative of the dehumanization and repopulation of the earth, traces a process through which the radical reduction of human numbers brings about the earth’s beautification by plant and animal life. I argue that The Last Man’s uniqueness as a novel, and especially its ecocritical import, can only be fully understood if we take into account its narrative of the ecological changes that take place on the earth after the destruction of the human species, as well as its narrative of the fall of the human species. The Last Man pushes the quintessential Malthusian environmental insight—the insight that the earth is a finite and fragile system—to its logical conclusion and beyond, and considers the great environmental price of collective human presence on the earth.
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