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New Trends in Disaster Narratives and the Emergence of Posthumanistic Sensitivity -Focusing on Kim Cho-yeop, Jung Se-rang, Djuna’s Fictions

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2022, 15(2), pp.55-77
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2022.15.2.55
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 25, 2022
  • Accepted : October 19, 2022
  • Published : October 31, 2022

Yi Soh-yon 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examines the disaster narratives that appeared in Korean literature around the 2010s and reveals the new posthumanistic sensitivity that appeared in these narratives. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, many apocalyptic narratives dealing with disasters were created in Korean literature and popular culture. However, the disaster narratives of that period are filled with signs of despair and destruction for mankind, which have been foretold the end of the world. In recent Korean novels released around 2010, the disaster narratives have begun to change significantly. Among them, some writers have shown more dramatic changes and revealed new sensitivities to the end of history. These writers faithfully inherit the traditions of existing disaster narratives and the customs of the SF genre and deal with various global disasters that humanity will face. New disaster narratives reveal posthumanistic sensitivity by presenting new civilizations in which humans coexist with non-human beings.

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