“새로운 세계의 가장자리에서”―캐시 애커의 『퍼시, 해적들의 왕』에 나타난 여해적의 존재론 (“On the Edge of a New World”: The Ontology of Pirate Girls in Kathy Acker’s Pussy, King of the Pirates)

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· 발행기관 : 새한영어영문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 새한영어영문학 / 64권 / 1호 / 31 ~ 61페이지
· 저자명 : 이선진

초록

This paper examines Kathy Acker’s last novel, Pussy, King of Pirates, as a myth of a new world emerging out of the chaotic remains of the heteronormative patriarchal capitalist world. Driven by the question of “what this posthuman world looked like” raised by one of the woman characters, this paper probes what makes posthuman this new world where the female characters become pirate girls. To do so, this paper first focuses on how such materials as Acker’s own texts, Artaud, and punk contribute to her figuration of the pirate as a revolutionary. It then analyzes the myth of pirate girls by drawing upon Acker’s conceptualization of the pirate and posthuman feminism via Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of becoming. This paper argues that this experimental novel about “pirate girls” is “posthuman” in the sense that the half-human and half-animal pirate girls are posthuman subjects that both undo the androcentric way of thinking that has equated female (queer) sexuality with animality and redefine subjectivity as an embedded and embodied being that is interdependent and co-constitutive with more-than-human worlds. Imagining what used to be considered impossible in the androcentric and anthropocentric society, Acker creates a posthuman feminist imaginary where women deterritorialize from the regimes of heteronormative patriarchal capitalism; they become pirate girls by making an alliance with animals; their sexualities go beyond the binary sex-gender system; and their anticapitalist way of living challenges the profit-driven quest for hidden treasure in the traditional pirate narrative.

영어초록

This paper examines Kathy Acker’s last novel, Pussy, King of Pirates, as a myth of a new world emerging out of the chaotic remains of the heteronormative patriarchal capitalist world. Driven by the question of “what this posthuman world looked like” raised by one of the woman characters, this paper probes what makes posthuman this new world where the female characters become pirate girls. To do so, this paper first focuses on how such materials as Acker’s own texts, Artaud, and punk contribute to her figuration of the pirate as a revolutionary. It then analyzes the myth of pirate girls by drawing upon Acker’s conceptualization of the pirate and posthuman feminism via Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of becoming. This paper argues that this experimental novel about “pirate girls” is “posthuman” in the sense that the half-human and half-animal pirate girls are posthuman subjects that both undo the androcentric way of thinking that has equated female (queer) sexuality with animality and redefine subjectivity as an embedded and embodied being that is interdependent and co-constitutive with more-than-human worlds. Imagining what used to be considered impossible in the androcentric and anthropocentric society, Acker creates a posthuman feminist imaginary where women deterritorialize from the regimes of heteronormative patriarchal capitalism; they become pirate girls by making an alliance with animals; their sexualities go beyond the binary sex-gender system; and their anticapitalist way of living challenges the profit-driven quest for hidden treasure in the traditional pirate narrative.

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