세상 끝에 있는 여성들의 공생적 에토스와 삶형태: 마가렛 애트우드의 매드아담 3부작

Abstract

This paper analyzes the lives of women living in the climate crisis and pandemic disaster of the Anthropocene, as imagined in the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, using Donna Haraway’s Compostism, or a New Material Feminism. It also examines how Atwood presents a new human figure with the symbiotic ethos that prodigally, promiscuously, and opportunistically cooperates with multispecies in an era of mass death and extinction. New Material Feminism, in symbiosis, or the worldly articulation and alignment of multispecies, seeks to shift the paradigm by redefining the essential but previously disparaged feminine ethos―vulnerability, passivity, empathy, sharing, generosity, caring, commitment, gratitude, forgiveness, apology, holding, prodigality, promiscuity, opportunism, etc.―and placing it at the center of an alternative discourse beyond modern humanism. At the forefront is the Compostism of Haraway. This article is an attempt to find the worldly wisdom and ability to change the reality that continues as usual, in a symbiotic feminine ethos. To resist the modern humanism that caused the Anthropocene climate crisis and pandemic, we need a new ethics-onto-epistem-ology. It requires language, thinking, and behavior that are inappropriate for the prevailing patriarchal, capitalist culture. Now that possible things are useless and exhausted, we have to dream and try the impossible by raising the femininity of the ancient futures that were previously disparaged. The symbiotic ethos and form of life of the women in the novel open the door to a new story about the possibility of the symbiosis among those who are in a seriously unequal power relationship.