Environmental Discourses in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy; Or, The Neoliberal Prometheus

Alexandre  Desbiens-Brassard

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Environmental Discourses in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy; Or, The Neoliberal Prometheus

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Submitted: July 13, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. 2013. Vintage Canada, 2014.
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003. Vintage Canada, 2009.
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 2009. Vintage Canada, 2010.
Bacon, Francis. The New Atlantis. 1627. Project Guttenberg, produced by Michael Pullen and William Fishburne, 23 Oct. 2008, www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm.
Baudrillard, Jean. “Simulacra and Simulations.” Translated by Paul Foss et al. Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, edited by Mark Poster, 2nd ed., Polity, 2001, pp. 169-87.
Bowler, Kate. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. Oxford UP, 2013.
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Dryzek, John S. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. 3rd ed., Oxford UP, 2013.
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McNally, David. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Brill, 2011.
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Moore, Jason W. “The Socio-Ecological Crises of Capitalism.” Interview by Sasha Lilley.
Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, PM Press, 2011, pp. 136-52.
Narkunas, J. Paul. “Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams.” Critique, no. 56, 2015, pp. 1-25.
Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Blunder of Nature and Knowledge. South End Press, 1997.
Taylor, Jerry. “The Growing Abundance of Natural Resources.” Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane, CATO Institute, 1993, pp. 363-78.
Vials, Chris. “Margaret Atwood’s Dystopic Fiction and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Freedom.” Textual Practice, vol. 29, no. 2, 2015, pp. 235-54.

How to Cite

Desbiens-Brassard, A. . (2021). Environmental Discourses in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy; Or, The Neoliberal Prometheus. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 141–160. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32502

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[1] Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. 2013. Vintage Canada, 2014.

[2] Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003. Vintage Canada, 2009.

[3] Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 2009. Vintage Canada, 2010.

[4] Bacon, Francis. The New Atlantis. 1627. Project Guttenberg, produced by Michael Pullen and William Fishburne, 23 Oct. 2008, www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm.

[5] Baudrillard, Jean. “Simulacra and Simulations.” Translated by Paul Foss et al. Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, edited by Mark Poster, 2nd ed., Polity, 2001, pp. 169-87.

[6] Bowler, Kate. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. Oxford UP, 2013.

[7] Defalco, Amelia. “MaddAddam, Biocapitalism, and Affective Things.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 11, no. 3, 2017, pp. 432-51. doi:10.1093/cwwrit/vpx008.

[8] Dryzek, John S. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. 3rd ed., Oxford UP, 2013.

[9] Dunlap, Allison. “Eco-Dystopia: Reproduction and Destruction in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” Journal of Ecocriticism, vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-15.

[10] Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality. Translated by William Weaver, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.

[11] Foster, John Bellamy. “The Ecological Dimensions of Marx’s Thought.” Interview by Sasha Lilley. Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, PM Press, 2011, pp. 123-35.

[12] Glass, Trevor, director. Suffer the Children. YouTube, 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X5dpfzXUus.

[13] The Holy Bible. Authorized King James Version, Holman Bible Press, 1998.

[14] Keteyian, Armen. “On the Road to Prosperity.” CBS News, 5 Feb. 2008, www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-road-to-prosperity/.

[15] McNally, David. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Brill, 2011.

[16] Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. 1980. Fortieth Anniversary Ed., HarperCollins, 2020.

[17] Moore, Jason W. “The Socio-Ecological Crises of Capitalism.” Interview by Sasha Lilley.

[18] Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, PM Press, 2011, pp. 136-52.

[19] Narkunas, J. Paul. “Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddams.” Critique, no. 56, 2015, pp. 1-25.

[20] Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Blunder of Nature and Knowledge. South End Press, 1997.

[21] Taylor, Jerry. “The Growing Abundance of Natural Resources.” Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane, CATO Institute, 1993, pp. 363-78.

[22] Vials, Chris. “Margaret Atwood’s Dystopic Fiction and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Freedom.” Textual Practice, vol. 29, no. 2, 2015, pp. 235-54.