We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”
A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9002811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Brooks Bouson (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-26 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989410395430 |
| OpenAlex | W2048358414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Margaret Atwood reflects in her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood, as she does in her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, not only on feminist but also on humanist and posthumanist concerns, as she questions the very survival of humankind in an era of environmental destruction, excessive consumption, unregulated biotechnological experiments and pandemic viruses. Offering a strident critique of the contemporary culture of unbridled consumption, Atwood, in Year, draws on and literalizes the trope of corporate cannibalism in describing her Americanized and corporation-controlled world. In a similar way, she draws on and extends a related idea she has long made use of in her fiction — that of the male commodification and consumption of women — as she tells the intertwined stories of Toby and Ren, two female pleebland survivors of the pandemic plague and former members of the God’s Gardeners, an eco-religious cult and resistance group. Invoking the idea of degeneration as she expresses her long-held fears about environmental and social decline, Atwood looks to religion — specifically eco-religion — as she seeks evidence of our ethical capacity to find a remedy to humanity’s ills
Commodification · Consumption (sociology · Destiny (ISS module · Economy · Environmental ethics · Humanism · Humanity · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
O duplo como paródia em O Ano do Dilúvio
Crises and Community Construction in the Post-Epidemic Era
Between Words, Numbers, and Things
Rewriting the Human at the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Ecological Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Between the Mythical and the Ironic
Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics
Strangers in Strange Worlds
Subjectal Scale and Micro-biopolitics at the End of the Anthropocene
Dystopia, Feminism and Phallogocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Paradise in Hell
Future Shock
Representações de opressão de gênero em O Ano do Dilúvio, de Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, reconfigured social theory and the Anthropocene Age
True Trash
Using Ecotopian Fiction to Reimagine Public Policy
A “joke-filled romp” through end times
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |