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    Title: The Silkworm Girl, Sericultural EcoGothic, and the Anthropocene
    La niña gusano de seda, el ecogótico sericícola y el Antropoceno
    Authors: 許立欣
    Hsu, Li-Hsin
    Contributors: 英文系
    Keywords: Chinese mythology;Chinese folk literature;Ecocriticism in literature;Sericulture;Insects in literature
    Mitología china;Literatura folclórica china;Ecocrítica en la literatura;Sericicultura;Insectos en la literatura
    Date: 2024-12
    Issue Date: 2025-01-17 10:49:37 (UTC+8)
    Abstract: The article looks at the connection between Chinese folklores and the Anthropocene, examining the tale of the silkworm girl in ancient Chinese mythologies and folklores from an EcoGothic perspective of human-nonhuman alliance (as well as its betrayal). The process of sericultural development in Asia works in tandem with the formation of the renowned “silk road,” an international commercial (as well as military) route for the exchange of goods and materials from East Asia and Central Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean region. The myth of the silkworm girl encapsulates an eco-economic co-existence among human beings, animals, plants, and matter in its most rudimentary form. My discussion focuses on the two versions of the story of the silkworm girl, one from an earlier collection of folklore—Sou shen ji (In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record) by Jin Dynasty historian, Bao Gan, in China—and the other one by Guan Ting Du—Yong Cheng Ji Sian Lu (Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City), a later collection of stories compiled in the Tang dynasty. While silkworms in ancient Chinese literature and the sericulture they embody have been associated with agricultural advancement through the human domestication and extraction of natural resources, the anthropocentric interpretations of the moral lessons conveyed in those tales about the economic value their industry and productivity symbolize is problematized by the girl-horse metamorphosis and their symbiotic relationship with mulberry trees. Their representations are further complicated by the military involvement in sericulture. This article compares diverging representations of the silkworm girl within the context of the sericultural practice, particularly the man-horse-silkworm-mulberry entanglement, to reconsider the ecological significance of Asian mythologies in the age of our Anthropocene crisis.
    Este artículo analiza la conexión entre el folclore chino y el Antropoceno, examinando la historia de la niña gusano de seda en las mitologías y folclores chinos antiguos desde una perspectiva ecogótica de la alianza entre humanos y no humanos. El proceso de desarrollo sericícola en Asia va en conjunto con la formación de la famosa “ruta de la seda”, una ruta comercial internacional para el intercambio de bienes desde Asia Oriental y Central hacia Europa y la región del Mediterráneo. El mito de la niña gusano de seda resume esa coexistencia ecoeconómica entre seres humanos, animales, plantas y materia en su forma más rudimentaria. Mi análisis se centra en las dos versiones de la historia de la niña gusano de seda, una de una colección de folklore —Sou shen ji, recopilada por un historiador de la dinastía Jin, Bao Gan, en China—, y la otra de una colección posterior compilada durante la dinastía Tang —Yong Cheng Ji Sian Lu de Guan Ting Du—. Si bien los gusanos de seda en la literatura china antigua y la sericicultura que encarnan se han asociado con el avance agrícola a través de la domesticación humana y la extracción de recursos naturales, las interpretaciones antropocéntricas de las lecciones morales transmitidas en esos cuentos sobre el valor económico que simbolizan su industria y productividad están problematizadas por la metamorfosis niña-caballo y su relación simbiótica con las moreras. Sus representaciones se complican con la participación militar en la sericicultura. Se compararán representaciones divergentes de la niña gusano de seda dentro del contexto de la práctica sericícola, particularmente el entrelazamiento hombre-caballo-gusano de seda-morera, a fin de reconsiderar el significado ecológico de las mitologías asiáticas en la era de nuestra crisis antropocena.
    Relation: New Polygraphs (Nuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada), No.10, pp.12-31
    Data Type: article
    DOI 連結: https://doi.org/10.22201/ffyl.29544076.2024.10.2144
    DOI: 10.22201/ffyl.29544076.2024.10.2144
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