"I'm Going Away Now" : Posthumanism and the End of the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)
Abstract: This essay explores the themes of posthumanism and the Anthropocene in Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. It analyses how the novel describes humanity’s effects on the earth in the novel and its human and non-human inhabitants, during the geological era that is called the Anthropocene. It argues that this era abruptly comes to an end with the scientist Crake’s carefully planned annihilation of humanity and the introduction of the genetically modified, posthuman species the Crakers.
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