녹색과 갈색의 경계지대--미국 도시근교자연문학과 생태비평의 영역확장 (A Borderland between Green and Brown Landscapes:An Ecocritical Road to Urban Nature Writing)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국영어영문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 영어영문학 / 54권 / 1호 / 31 ~ 60페이지
· 저자명 : 신두호

초록

As a way to situate environmental literary study, urban nature recently
seems to have become an increasingly important part of ecocritical studies.
Considering the recent deprecation on the alleged ecocriticism’s ecocentric
position, this move looks promising. However, a scrutable review of recent
publications of ecocritical studies reveals a contradicting result that an ecocritical
approach to urban nature not only lacks substance but also makes too
much of the cultural and political issues of ‘environmental justice’ in which
the traditional value and beauty of nature is totally sacrificed and neglected
for its political purpose.
Under the current circumstance that the environmental crisis threatens all
landscapes of wild, rural, and urban, ecocriticism needs to put together
“green” landscapes of wildness and “brown” landscapes of urban environment.
The interdependence between outback and urban landscapes is best
observed in suburban areas in which both landscapes coexist and merge.
Provided with due learning and attention of nonhuman environment in their
backyard, suburban residents have privilege of both appreciating nature’s
beauty and value of its own, on the one hand, and acutely reckoning urban
environmental concerns related to their health, safety, and sustenance, on the
other, in their own home grounds.
The post-1980s in the United States has witnessed the emerging voices of
suburban nature writings that speak for both green and brown landscapes,
which have escaped from ecocritical attention. Among the suburban nature
writings, those of Michael Pollan and Thomas Mitchell well illustrate how the
green and brown landscapes are interwoven and, accordingly, how environmental
awareness of both landscapes can start in suburban ‘home.’
Ecocriticism’s validation as relevant studies of literature and environment
may depend on these suburban nature writings which demonstrate an
‘ancient-future’ ethic of “home” based environmentalism.

영어초록

As a way to situate environmental literary study, urban nature recently
seems to have become an increasingly important part of ecocritical studies.
Considering the recent deprecation on the alleged ecocriticism’s ecocentric
position, this move looks promising. However, a scrutable review of recent
publications of ecocritical studies reveals a contradicting result that an ecocritical
approach to urban nature not only lacks substance but also makes too
much of the cultural and political issues of ‘environmental justice’ in which
the traditional value and beauty of nature is totally sacrificed and neglected
for its political purpose.
Under the current circumstance that the environmental crisis threatens all
landscapes of wild, rural, and urban, ecocriticism needs to put together
“green” landscapes of wildness and “brown” landscapes of urban environment.
The interdependence between outback and urban landscapes is best
observed in suburban areas in which both landscapes coexist and merge.
Provided with due learning and attention of nonhuman environment in their
backyard, suburban residents have privilege of both appreciating nature’s
beauty and value of its own, on the one hand, and acutely reckoning urban
environmental concerns related to their health, safety, and sustenance, on the
other, in their own home grounds.
The post-1980s in the United States has witnessed the emerging voices of
suburban nature writings that speak for both green and brown landscapes,
which have escaped from ecocritical attention. Among the suburban nature
writings, those of Michael Pollan and Thomas Mitchell well illustrate how the
green and brown landscapes are interwoven and, accordingly, how environmental
awareness of both landscapes can start in suburban ‘home.’
Ecocriticism’s validation as relevant studies of literature and environment
may depend on these suburban nature writings which demonstrate an
‘ancient-future’ ethic of “home” based environmentalism.

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