Current Search: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy. (x)
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“Odd Apocalyptic Panics”: Chthonic Storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.
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Creator
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Nugent, Ashley Frances, Mason, Julia, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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I argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming...
Show moreI argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming centuries. By bringing the two texts into dialogue, one sees that Atwood’s novel constitutes the kind of story deemed necessary by Haraway for making kin in the Chthulucene. Various scenes depicting cooperation and interdependence among humans and other animals offer chthonic models of kinship; these relationships, as opposed to ideological and anthropocentric isolation, will serve as the means of surviving and thriving within an ongoing apocalypse.
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2018
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013090
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Subject Headings
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy., Haraway, Donna Jeanne., Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
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Document (PDF)
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Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction.
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Cervone, Skye, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within...
Show moreThis study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within capitalist systems, suggesting an inherently exploitative relationship between animals and biopolitical capitalism.
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Date Issued
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2019
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013364
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Animals, Capitalism, Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy, Quitely, Frank, 1968-, Dick, Philip K Do androids dream of electric sheep?, Science fiction
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Document (PDF)
