정원의 문화적 탄력성: 실코의 『모래언덕의 정원』에 대한 생태비평적 읽기

It is in comparatively recent years that academia involving the history of gardens has come up with metaphors of gardens. Such a neglect might be partly reasoned by a habitual scholarly practice, the separative approach of the relevant scholarly communities predominantly like gardening and aesthetics or philosophy. However, the recent interdisciplinary studies concerning gardens and gardening have found them charged with a rich cluster of metaphors. This research focuses on the metaphor of cultural coexistence or fusion, which distinguishes Bronwyn's excavation garden and Laura's black one, depicted in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes. The protagonist, Indigo (a Sand Lizard girl) is forced to launch her journey into East, an allegorically reversed travel intending to subvert colonial depredation in itself. During the journey, she experiences a various types of gardens, the above-mentioned ones including Edward's orchid garden and Susan's Blue Garden. What Indigo learns through this garden-pilgrimage is that the resilient response and attitude toward other cultures only help revitalize her own culture otherwise to be marginalized. And in the ecocritical perspective, her transformative view of culture might stimulate a dynamic interaction between ecocentrism and environmental pragmatism, preservationism and conservationism, and also possibly provides their meeting ground at the same time, which is desperately required to efficiently implement today's environmentalism.