인류세 속 비인간동물 서사의 불가능성과 그 이면: 리처드 애덤스의 『플래이그 도그』를 중심으로 = Can we write about animals in the Anthropocene?: Richard Adams’ The Plague Dogs as the Contemplation on the Im/possibilities of the Animal Narrative

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Expanding the discussion of Anthropocene literature beyond the discussion of particular styles and genres of ‘human’ literature, this article focuses on the epistemological, artistical, and ethical crisis of the Anthropocene as represented in the crisis of narrative in the “animal tales” of the twentieth century. In the animal tales of the post-mid twentieth-century, the increasingly human-dominated and technologically-transformed world threatens the continuity of the tradition of the animal narrative itself: there hardly is left a place for animals to run, adventure, and find home in. Richard Adams’ s The Plague Dogs (1977) wrestles with the im/possibility of making up a believable-and-enjoyable animal adventure narrative in the time when there is literally no place for animals. The Plague Dogs consciously chooses to give its animal protagonists a miraculous “ escape” ending – over the “realistic” ending that reiterates the abject condition of animals in the system – , thus taking a provoking position in the broader meta-narrative debate concerning the fiction’ s role in the face of the unprecedented environmental crisis.

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