In her recent novels Oryx and Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009), Margaret Atwood stages two parallel plots in a post-apocalyptic scenery of great ecocritical interest. I focus on the debate on the value of literature and language in a technocratic society. Crake’s catastrophic actions – the use of genetic engineering to wipe out the human species and replace it with a new one – are clear manifestations of his ecophobia, as related to the question of control and dominion over nature.
The Legacy of Last Men : Narrations on Ecocatastrophe and Ecophobia / A. Tiengo. ((Intervento presentato al 10. convegno Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits tenutosi a University of Kansas nel 2013.
The Legacy of Last Men : Narrations on Ecocatastrophe and Ecophobia
A. Tiengo
2013
Abstract
In her recent novels Oryx and Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009), Margaret Atwood stages two parallel plots in a post-apocalyptic scenery of great ecocritical interest. I focus on the debate on the value of literature and language in a technocratic society. Crake’s catastrophic actions – the use of genetic engineering to wipe out the human species and replace it with a new one – are clear manifestations of his ecophobia, as related to the question of control and dominion over nature.
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