The Anthropocene, Cli-Fi and Food: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam

The Anthropocene, Cli-Fi and Food: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam

This article examines Margaret Atwood’s climate fiction novel MaddAddam (2013), a dystopian cautionary text in which food production and eating become ethical choices related to individual agency and linked to sustainability. In the novel, both mainstream environmentalism and deep ecologism are show...

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Main Author: Esther Muñoz-González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) 2021-06-01
Series:Atlantis
Online Access:https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/761
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spelling doaj-054e3fc6056b40df94a9ee20cf86e45b2021-06-30T11:30:06ZengAsociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)Atlantis0210-61241989-68402021-06-01431395410.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.03The Anthropocene, Cli-Fi and Food: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddamEsther Muñoz-González0Universidad de ZaragozaThis article examines Margaret Atwood’s climate fiction novel MaddAddam (2013), a dystopian cautionary text in which food production and eating become ethical choices related to individual agency and linked to sustainability. In the novel, both mainstream environmentalism and deep ecologism are shown to be insufficient and fundamentally irrelevant in the face of a submissive population, in a state of passivity that environmental studies scholar Stacy Alaimo relates to a scientific and masculinist interpretation of the Anthropocene. The article focuses on edibility as a key element in negotiating identity, belonging, cohabitation and the frontiers of the new MaddAddam postapocalyptic community.https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/761
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description This article examines Margaret Atwood’s climate fiction novel MaddAddam (2013), a dystopian cautionary text in which food production and eating become ethical choices related to individual agency and linked to sustainability. In the novel, both mainstream environmentalism and deep ecologism are shown to be insufficient and fundamentally irrelevant in the face of a submissive population, in a state of passivity that environmental studies scholar Stacy Alaimo relates to a scientific and masculinist interpretation of the Anthropocene. The article focuses on edibility as a key element in negotiating identity, belonging, cohabitation and the frontiers of the new MaddAddam postapocalyptic community.
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