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This paper explores the representation of technology and nature in Monica Hughes’s young adult science fiction (YASF). Hughes’s YASFs deal with the question of technology again and again. They admit that modern technology is partly to blame for the numerous problems humanity faces today, such as environmental damages, overpopulation, dehumanization, and others. Some of Hughes’s early works, published around 1980s in particular, reflect a general tendency in modern YASFs. Most of modern YASFs demonize technology and propose a return to nature. However, Hughes’s Isis trilogy, The Keeper of the Isis Light, The Guardian of Isis, The Isis Pedlar, questions if humanity needs to discard technology completely to restore what it has damaged. By examining an alternative community that chose a primitive agrarian lifestyle, and that banished almost all the traces of technology, the Isis trilogy claims a need for a balanced relationship between nature and technology. The Isis trilogy suggests that properly used technology can enhance the life of human beings. Unlike the majority of modern YASFs that are partly responsible for the widespread of technophobia, Hughes’s Isis trilogy presents an alternative vision for the proper relationship between nature and technology.

목차

I. 청소년 SF와 과학 기술
II. 휴즈의 YASF와 과학 기술
III. ≪아이시스≫ 삼부작과 대안 사회 실험
IV. YASF와 “평형 모델”
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저자

• 유영종 [ Young Jong Yoo | 인하대학교 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813