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 ◽  
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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 “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 The quest for a successful book-to-series adaptation in the times of SVOD — using the examples of “The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Joanna Szydełko
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Entertainment Television ◽  
The Times

A fascinating factor of so-called mass culture is the ability to adapt to society and its needs. The same pattern seems to be followed by the film industry, as it has been influenced by other branches of entertainment, television included. These are SVODs (Streaming Video on Demand platforms), which offer a growing number of screen adaptations of literary works. The following paper aims to analyse some criteria upon which book-to-series adaptations might be regarded as successful, using examples from The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace.Produced respectively by Hulu and CBC, both based on books by the Canadian female writer Margaret Atwood, the analysed shows confirm that the audience is more inclined to watch (and read) an intertextual production that often reflects and comments on contemporary political and social reality.

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.

The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Schmeink
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Genetic Science

Chapter 3 analyzes two exemplary literary works dealing with the creation of new posthuman species as a consequence of contemporary consumer society. With liquid modernity commodifying all aspects of life, the logical extrapolation, made possible by genetic science rapidly closing the gap in the dimension of science-fictional possibility, is the commodification of all life itself, including the human. Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi discuss future worlds that build upon tendencies of an extreme consumer society and the sea change of human impact in the anthropocene. Both story cycles enhance present dystopian tendencies of liquid modernity to explore the consequences of the hypercapitalist commodification of life and its effect on human subjectivity. In both story worlds, zoe is reduced to its mechanical, material quality and appropriated for consumption, manifest expressly in the changing status of the human into the inhuman, non-human, and posthuman. The chapter discusses this shift in the perception of the human and the consequences of posthuman social development. Most importantly though, in exploring the posthuman as an alternative form of communal and social practice, both literary works provide for a eutopian moment in the dystopian imagination – allowing a hybrid, changing and multiple posthuman perspective to emerge.

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