날로 홉킨슨의 『 미드나잇 러버』에 나타난 초월적 유토피아이상주의 = Transgressive Utopianism in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber

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This study aims to analyze Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber as a feminist dystopian novel that transgress the traditional definition of dystopia. By adapting the generic convention of bildungsroman and dystopia and amalgamating various elements of science fiction, Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural beliefs, fantasy and mythology, she attempts to challenge and subvert the patriarchal discourse of dystopian fiction. Via a dynamic Black female character, Tan-Tan who seeks to find her own identity resisting the oppressive masculinistic structures, she paves the way for critical feminist dystopias that contain the utopian impulse to find a positive way of life and possibilities for the future. Suffering a split personality due to the trauma inflicted on her by her father, Tan-Tan discovers the way to cure herself by adopting the persona of the Midnight Robber, a traditional male Caribbean carnival character. And she can recover from her physical and psychological trauma and find her own identity while living in the interspecies community of post-human aliens, douens. By contrasting two parallel worlds, technologically advanced utopian Toussaint and natural dystopian space of New Half-Way, Hopkinson dismantles the strict boundary of utopia and dystopia. At the end of novel, Tan-Tan gives a birth to her son, Tubman embodying a new model of post-human who can be conscious of his own birth. Unlike heroes in the classical dystopia, a female heroine of feminist dystopia embarks on a quest of self-discovery with help of a hybrid community. Accordingly, Midnight Robber of Nalo Hopkinson shows the process of transgressive utopianism of Tan-Tan who tries to find alternative future.