scholarly journals “God is a cluster of neurons”: Neo-posthumanism, theocide, theogony and anti-myths of origin in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Gragoatá ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Marks de Marques
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Oryx And Crake

O presente trabalho almeja problematizar o recente ressurgimento de narrativas literárias distópicas nas literaturas de língua inglesa, sugerindo que as mesmas devam ser lidas a partir de uma perspectiva que considere a centralidade do corpo distópico, corpo este que deve ser entendido como uma entidade transumana. A partir das discussões de transumanismo e pós-humanismo, do impacto do desenvolvimento científico na construção do desejo e do papel do pensamento teológico na pós-modernidade, almeja-se discutir as formas como tais ideias aparecem e são apresentadas na obra Oryx and Crake, da escritora canadense Margaret Atwood.---Artigo em inglês

scholarly journals Mobilité des féminins dans quelques récits dystopiques franco-québécois et anglo-canadiens: indice d’agentivité ?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Côté
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Dionne Brand ◽  
De Se ◽  
Nalo Hopkinson ◽  
Oryx And Crake

Je comparerai ici les espaces tels qu’ils sont représentés dans divers récits dystopiques (ou comportant des noyaux dystopiques) franco-québécois et  anglo-canadiens en me concentrant sur la mobilité des personnages féminins comme indice d’agentivité. Dans le corpus comparatif que j’étudie se dessinent certaines tendances : réticents à imaginer un avenir même immédiat, divers personnages féminins recourent le plus souvent aux déplacements dans l’espace pour ouvrir l’horizon du présent (Tarmac (Nicolas Dickner), Les larmes de Saint Laurent (Dominique Fortier), Il pleuvait des oiseaux (Jocelyne Saucier), Le sablier des solitudes (Jean-Simon Desrochers). Le parcours remarquable de l’espace  par des personnages féminins, que l’auteur du récit soit masculin ou féminin, semble représenter un changement récent de paradigme. Mais peut-on pour autant dire de ces parcours qu’ils permettent une certaine agentivité? Les œuvres anglo-canadiennes étudiées (Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood), Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson), Ossuaries (Dionne Brand) présentent des parcours féminins très contrastés dans chacun des cas : le passage de la quasi-immobilité à la mobilité est forcé par un événement perturbateur. Souvent, ce sont de petites collectivités mixtes, représentant les plus grandes, qui sont mises en scène. On peut penser qu’en raison des diverses crises que traverse l’extrême contemporain, de nouveaux paradigmes émergent, dont celui d’un parcours effréné de l’espace du côté féminin afin d’esquisser des repères qu’un avenir bloqué empêche de se créer du côté de la temporalité. Néanmoins, on peut conclure qu’il s’agit pour ces deux littératures d’une tentative de cartographier ces temps troubles afin d’offrir des repères à la collectivité. Cependant cette cartographie est particulièrement genrée ou sexuée, car si les personnages de femmes ont acquis une grande mobilité dans l’espace, la garantie de leur agentivité dans cet espace semble résider dans un dévouement auprès de collectivités, qui restreint leur liberté individuelle.

Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

2021 ◽  
pp. 096394702110592
Author(s):  
Irene O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Jeanette Winterson ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
Stylistic Changes

Interaction between text and reader is a prominent concern in stylistics. This paper focusses on interactions among stylistic processes and subconscious microcognitive processes that generate changes to narrative and interpretation during reading. Drawing on process philosophy and recent neuroscientific research, I articulate this dynamism through analysis of a brief narrative moment from each of The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I argue that high densities of stylistic and microcognitive perturbations lead to frequent narrative and interpretive changes in the two moments. The analyses reinforce portrayals of reading as intensely complex, dynamic and changeable. Complexity, dynamism and mutability also characterise the stylistic changes in the two narrative moments. This paper advocates greater attention to the role of volatile stylistic and cognitive microdynamics in shaping the reading of prose fiction.

scholarly journals MARGARET ATWOOD: SF, ÉTICA, GÊNERO E ECOLOGIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Izabel Brandão ◽  
Ildney Cavalcanti
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Oryx And Crake

Este trabalho analisa o primeiro romance da trilogia distópica MaddAddam (MaddAddão), composta por Oryx and Crake (2003, Oryx e Crake, 2004), The Year of the Flood (2009, O ano do dilúvio, 2018) e MaddAddam (2013, MaddAddão, 2019), da autora canadense Margaret Atwood, tendo por base justaposições de questões éticas, de gênero e ecológicas. Nosso olhar recai sobre a figuração de personagens femininas centrais, especialmente Oryx, observando as formas como a sf de Atwood pode alinhar-se às teorias contemporâneas acerca do corpo das mulheres; do poder (Foucault, 1994) e da mascarada (Russo, 1986; Grosz, 1990; Butler, 1990). Ao examinar o funcionamento do princípio distópico da redução do mundo (Jameson, 2005) na narrativa em tela, enfatizamos a política de gênero subjacente à representação das personagens femininas, ao tempo em que lidamos com as seguintes questões: como compreender a problematização da autora acerca das trajetórias das mulheres no contexto da ideologia patriarcal como ainda presente no futuro apresentado no romance? Até que ponto os corpos das mulheres reencenam uma identificação potencial com o opressor? Quais as metáforas literárias em jogo na construção das interações dentro do universo humano e mais-quehumano (Alaimo, 2010)? Considerando os tropos de gênero e ecológicos, quão ético é o mundo criado por Atwood? Visto como sf, no sentido de que combina fato científico, ficção científica, fabulação especulativa, e feminismo especulativo (Haraway, 2016), a obra da autora canadense elabora reflexões provocadoras acerca do futuro da humanidade (?). PALAVRAS-CHAVE: SF de mulheres. Ética. Gênero. Margaret Atwood. Ecocrítica Feminista.

scholarly journals Women, Nature, and Culture: Patriarchy and Phalloecntrism in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood

Twejer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1209-1254
Author(s):  
Moreen Gorgees Seudin ◽  
◽  
Saman Abdulqadir Hussein Dizayi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
Cultural Ecological

This paper tackles patriarchy and phallocentrism's concepts by shedding light on women, culture, and nature. Margaret Atwood's novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood are examined in terms of the concepts mentioned above. Atwood's novels and literary works can be examined in light of the concepts of patriarchy and phallocentrism based on environmental ethics. Through the study of these two novels, this paper attempts to elicit the signs regarding the cultural-ecological discourses and women's conditions as they are trapped in a male-centered society. Besides, it stresses nature's conditions whereby natural objects are undermined and are in the same miserable conditions as women. Then, applying these two concepts in the novels, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood are thoroughly explored along with the male/female and culture/nature dualisms question. Keywords: Ecofeminism, Margaret Atwood, Patriarchy, Phallocentrism

scholarly journals MaddAddam Trilogy as a historical chronicle of the silenced in a (dystopian) society

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Maja Ćuk ◽  
Artea Panajotović
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tragic Event ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
A New Species

The MaddAddam Trilogy includes three novels written in the form of speculative fiction. The narrators and major protagonists in the first two works, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, are human survivors after the pandemic that has obliterated almost all population on the planet. In these symbolic cautionary tales that reflect current cultural and economic conditions, Margaret Atwood makes readers think about the questions what if mankind was completely eradicated and what if the construction of a new species could be masterminded successfully. In the third book of the trilogy, MaddAddam, the apocalyptic story is retold by one of the genetically engineered beings, whose account provides a glimmer of hope for the future. The aim of this paper is to analyse the roles of the narrators and characters in the aforementioned works (Snowman, Toby, Ren, Adam One and Blackbeard) as recorders of the circumstances before, during and after the tragic event, by relying on Hayden White's theoretical views on the making of historical narratives.

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