인류세의 (한국)문학 서설

The article seeks to explore new possibilities for literature amid the disasters of the anthropocene, such as pandemic and climate change, in 2020. Anthropocene is a name that signals the beginning of a new geological era in which humankind as a geological actor has a huge impact on the global environment. Anthropocene has significant meaning in calling for fundamental reflection and reason for the consequences of humans and their actions on the side of our descendants and non-human objects. Then, in the framework of the question of the anthropocene, literature(fiction) changes in what form and what subject can be accommodated? Pandemic and climate change require a deep time and world-without-us beyond the human horizon and a new perception and reason, emotion and aesthetics to explore the ecological entanglement of human and non-human objects. Until now, (Korean) literature has been indifferent to anthropocene disasters such as pandemic and climate change, or has been stingy in seeking ways to represent them. It is also the plight of modern literature, which centers on humans. This article intended to reconsider the normative literary form and present a concept of anthropocene fiction as one possibility of variation and evolution beyond it. Anthropocene fiction is appropriate for embracing climate change as a universal problem for humanity and promoting new literary innovations.