상처와 응시- 에코-페미니즘의 관점으로 본 아스따피예프의 물고기-대왕 -

Abstract

The Wound and Alleviation : V. Astafiev's <Queen-Fish> from the Viewpoint of Ecofeminism In this study Astafiev’s <Queen-Fish> is analyzed through the looking-glass of ecofeminism, which embraces the reconsideration about the trend of dichotomy and the discovery of feminine principle symbolized in nature. Regarding nature in the same light with femininity is both nature and women are victimized by national development projects and the dominance of reason in contemporary scholarship. The woman gnawed by increasing pain becomes a symbol of the nature under economic development programs. In this regards, nature and femininity is able to be connected with each other as a ‘wound’, which needs to be cured and restored for the harmonious world system. However, it is not true that ecofeminism tries simply to overthrow patriarchy and to criticize the anthropocentric view of nature. As it is impossible to consider feminism without patricentric system, there is no place for ecofeminism departed from all sorts of oppression upon a woman. It is why the author insists on the liquidation of binomial contrasts such as man vs. nature, man vs. animal, man vs. woman, man vs. child. The author of <Queen-Fish> is very emphatic on the importance of the fact that a man is a product of nature and, thus, a man is identical with nature. The author’s Weltanschauung is personified with a humane character, one of the main characters Akim. He is a man who takes care of women, children, and animals, unlike poachers who destroy nature for self-interest. He is also a man of believing that life and death is connected with each other like a M&ouml;bius band. As is known to us by the figure of Akim, who put in practice a code of conduct by Gaia hypothesis, literature of ecofeminism aims at functioning as a goddess of treating all sorts of wounds and ecosystem at a crisis.