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Gilman's Herland and Lessing's The Cleft: Male Narrators Look Into the Women Community
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『허랜드』와 『클레프트족 이야기』: 남성 서술자가 바라본 여성만의 나라

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Academic journal
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SUN HWA PARK (건국대학교)
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한국현대영미소설학회 현대영미소설 현대영미소설 제27권 제3호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2020.1
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5 - 31 (27page)

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This paper aims to examine Gilman and Lessing’s intention of creating a world of only women with parthenogenesis. This feminist utopian world is observed and represented by male narrators who are unreliable for they just rely on their memories and archives about the stories. In Herland, women have managed their land with parthenogenesis for 2,ooo years; with the visit of three American men, this land faces with turmoil, which makes the women plan to restore the society of both sexes they used to have. In The Cleft, the women as an original organism consist of their generations with parthenogenesis while killing every boy-baby at birth; the women-only land, however, is dismantled by a group of male survivors, which causes the women’s loss of their ability of parthenogenesis. In Herland and The Cleft, the male narrators reveal the suppression and violence of the patriarchical system toward the women. On the other hand, they criticize the women’s atrocity and violence towards the boy-babies and the lowest girls. This paper argues that regardless of the time difference of about 90 years, Gilman and Lessing’s narrators propose the harmonious coexistence of the both sexes by capturing the limitations and possibilities of the women-only land.

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