Earticle

초록

영어

This study aims to examine a skeptical aspect of the posthuman view focused on Zero K (2016) written by Don DeLillo. The novel presents Ross Lockhart, a hedge fund manager, who has obscenely made billions from the profit impact of natural disasters, and primary investor in a secret cryonics facility, Convergence. He is inspired by the terminal illness of his second wife Artist Martineau to seek immortality through cryonics. The novel’s narrator and Ross’s son, Jeffrey Lockhart, offers readers a tour of the cryonics facility where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until time to come when new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. However, DeLillo appears to be skeptical of immortality. The bodies in their cryonic state are perceived by Jeffrey as forms of visionary and body art. Artist, through her name and profession as an archeologist, bears this message. In short, DeLillo, known as the writer constructing pathways into the future, makes readers think “What will it be like to come back?” by juxtaposing mannequins and frozen bodies in Convergence.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며
Ⅱ. 포스트휴먼: 영원한 죽음상태의 냉동인간
Ⅲ. 포스트 휴먼: 예술작품이 된 냉동인간
Ⅳ. 나가며
인용문헌
Abstract

키워드

저자

• 김수임 [ Sooim Kim | 경희대학교 강사 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820