정찬 소설의 생태학적 상상력 연구

Abstract

The main purpose of this presentation is to explore why Jung Chan reveals his ecological criticism through his novels and what his ecological imagination for alternatives. It is tempting that his novel is a merely mean to reveal his antipathy to market ideology such as capitalistic system and civilization. There are, however, more convincing evidences that his novels try to point out the limits of capitalistic social system mainly pursuing market ideology. Murray Bookchin suggests that humans’ dominance in human society has been mistakenly accepted and this misconception has caused a lot of social and natural problems spreading into natural environment. In the light of this context, Jung Chan’s intention in his novels emerges on the surface. He is the novelist who defines that a blind belief of civilization and capital is same as social power and the social power is violence. He, therefore, conceives when humans’ desire pursues the social power, the power inevitably involves violence, then humans are going to stay in vicious cycle that suppresses others in both social and natural environment. Furthermore, as one more violent power as dominant attribute are added to social power, it decreases the possibility of social and natural redemption which Jung Chan consistently wishes. So that’s why Jung Chan cannot but keep critical perspective to all anti-ecological phenomena like human dominance on other human and nature. Given his perspective of social system and power to human and natural environment, this presentation tries to figure out ecological imagination in his novels based on Bookchin’s social ecology and Eco-feminism.