마가릿 애트우드의 『매드아담 삼부작』과 포스트휴먼

Margaret Atwood s MaddAddam Trilogy and Posthuman: Focusing on Deleuzian Deboundarization

This study aims to analyze the deboundarization in posthuman novels from Gilles Deleuze‘s perspective. Deleuze draws the aspect of deboundarization through a continuously fluctuating act of desire which deviates with endless versatility and mutation. This study analyzes The MaddAddam Trilogy, in which Margaret Atwood points to the political, economic, cultural, and environmental destruction intertwined with scientific and technological ethics. Posthuman novels shed light on the diverse forms of life produced: the fundamental coexistence of human beings and posthumans created by boundless scientific imagination. This thesis elucidates The MaddAddam Trilogy from the Deleuzian viewpoint of deformation through the use of the concepts of difference, becoming, and abstract machine. The Deleuzian deformation is established when multi-categorical entities without individualistic distinction change through substantially horizontal and rhizomatic interconnections. This study suggests that a new paradigm of human existence can be brought about by the analysis of the various manners of deboundarization in posthuman novels from the Deleuzian perspective.