포스트휴먼 시대 비인간 담론으로 다시 읽는 여성시―김승희·김혜순·최승자의 시를 중심으로

Abstract

While the concept of posthuman is being called importantly as the key to understanding this era, non-human discourse is being newly discovered. In this paper, I tried to reread women's poetry based on non-human discourse that was not sufficiently dealt with in reading Korean modern poetry. In particular, I tried to read a new Korean modern women's poetry, focusing on Jane Bennett's non-human thinking, who advocated vital materialism, and Rosi Braidotti's theory, which has focused on the concept of posthuman and gender difference, opposing the dichotomous structure of traditional philosophy. As the text to be reviewed, poems by Kim Seung-hee, Kim Hye-soon, and Choi Seung-ja that dealt with non-human-thing or can be read again from the perspective of non-human discourse were selected. In the specimen of 'assemblage', which gives objects a vital materiality, Kim Seung-hee, Kim Hye-soon, and Choi Seung-ja show a living union that is in the process of constant transformation. If you read the poetic subject 'I' without limiting it to humans, you can discover a new possibility of reading in terms of non-human discourse. In the specimen of 'nomadic' that appears by arranging non-human bodies, the three poets show an expanded imagination of non-identity, division, gap, and metamorphosis. It is confirmed that the posthuman discourse's perspective that no identity is complete or fixed is taken first in the poems of the three poets who show nomadic thinking. In the specimen of 'creation', which shows the ability of non-human-thing or human beings to harmonize with it, the three poets show the applicability of the concept of 'machine' that can replace the concept of 'object'. This is differentiated from the vertical thinking system of anthropocentrism, and it can be said that it awakens the sense of horizontal hospitality inherent in posthuman non-human discourse.