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This study examines the crisis and resistance confronting contemporary urban spaces through N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities Duology: The City We Became (2020) and The World We Make (2022). While it is clear that urban space has functioned as a core backdrop for society throughout history, contemporary cities, in particular, have emerged as hubs of globalization and economic growth. Given this, the study of urban space serves not only as a yardstick for gauging societal change but also as a stage that intensively reveals the patterns of global transformation. Jemisin captures the problematic situations facing modern society through the city of New York, and, through the speculative vision, proposes a means of resistance and overcoming. In the novel, the metropolis becomes a living, sentient being; in this world, New York is represented by one primary avatar and five secondary avatars, each of which represents New York's five boroughs. Using the “Woman in White” to personify crises like gentrification and xenophobia, Jemisin argues that a city's true greatness does not stem from homogeneity, but from the encounter and interference of heterogeneous forces represented by the city avatars, diverse in race, sexual orientation, and class. Jemisin demonstrates that the heterogeneity and multiplicity of the city do not lead to disorder and fear, but rather add color to monotony and uniformity.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 위기 속 메트로폴리스—리예의 공격
Ⅲ. 젠트리피케이션—도시 프런티어의 폭력
Ⅳ. 반란의 도시
Ⅴ. 결론
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저자

• 이향미 [ Hyang-mi Lee | 한신대학교 부교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820