게리 스나이더의 ｢사냥｣ 연작시에 나타난 민족시학적 동물 신화 콜라주와 생태적 상상력 = Ethnopoetic Animal Myth Collage and Ecocritical Imagination in Gary Snyder’s “Hunting” Sequence.”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines how Gary Snyder’s “Hunting” sequence in Myths and Texts constructs a multicultural collage of animal mythology drawn from diverse traditions including Haida, Native American, Ainu, Inuit, Polynesian, and Buddhist Jataka narratives, and explores the ecocritical implications of this mythological synthesis. Through close readings of five key poems—“this poem is for birds,” “this poem is for bear,” “this poem is for deer,” “Sealion, salmon, offshore—,” and “Buddha fed himself to tigers”—, this paper demonstrates how Snyder’s ethnopoetic method repositions animals as sacred Others, challenging the anthropocentric worldview that underpins modern industrial civilization. Each poem layers distinct mythological strata: the eagle-feather purification rite of shamanism, the bear-marriage legend of Pacific Northwest peoples, the deer-dance ceremony of the Wintun, the Sedna myth of the Inuit, and the self-sacrificial bodhisattva of the Jataka tales. Rather than romanticizing these traditions, Snyder consistently enacts a self-reflexive humility that distinguishes his ecological vision from primitivism. Ultimately, the sequence proposes that the relationship between humans and animals must be grounded not in exploitation but in mutual compassion—a vision that anticipates contemporary anthropocene discourse and posthumanist ecology.