소비욕망과 생태주의 문학의 상관성

Abstract

There are not many cases of full-fledged mention about the issue of consumption desire in the study of ecologism literature in South Korea, which is because it is common sense that the enormous size of desire and reification brought about by the development of industrialization and capitalism are the main culprits of ecosystem destruction. It is time, however, to classify the types of desire in further details and conduct critical analysis of effects of consumption desire, which is regarded as the culprit of ecosystem destruction, on ecologism literature. Baudrillard and Bourdieu gave clear explanations about the ways that modern industrial society was defined as consumption society. Based on their interpretations, this study analyzed critically the way that consumption desire was embodied in the South Korean society since the 1990s. Jang Jeong-il and Yu Ha left Habitus and Signs, which exhibit the characteristics of consumption desire nicely, respectively. While the former wrote a poem of habitus according to the social classes and tastes, the latter went further from it and created a work out of consumption desire of signs. His works were significant in that they tried to overcome consumption desire by pursuing primitive life and leisure even though the pursuit was not full-blown. Their poems were good at embodying consumption desire as the negative product of postcapitalism, but they failed to propose the resulting problems and specific plans to overcome them. Clearly recognizing that the enormous size of consumption desire derived from the development of industrialization and capitalism, Choi Seung-ho criticized it from the perspective of civilization in his poems. In fact, his poems pulled out the issue of ecosystem destruction from consumption desire and embodied it in an effective fashion, thus making aesthetic achievements as ecologism literature. The enormous consumption desire rose to the surface as a more specific social issue through the ecologism literature of South Korea. Given that the ecologism literature of South Korea embodied the issue of consumption desire and added theoretical depth to it, the issue of overcoming consumption desire holds its significance.