@article{Frew_2014, title={“A Whole New Take on Indigenous”: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Wild Animal Story}, volume={39}, url={https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/22762}, abstractNote={Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy has met with popular acclaim and generated considerable scholarly interest since the 2003 publication of its first volume, <em>Oryx and Crake</em>. The implicit critique of Western capitalism presented in Atwood’s dystopian vision of a post-democratic, post-national, and post-human future seems to offer a wide appeal, particularly at a time of sustained environmental crisis. Instead of evaluating the merits of Atwood’s critique, however, this paper examines the ways in which the speculative future of <em>Oryx and Crake</em> and the warnings it contains are delimited by a problematic Second World paradigm. More specifically, the novel can be read in terms of the wild animal story, a genre first established in late-nineteenth-century Canada that Atwood herself was instrumental in defining as such in her controversial 1972 study <em>Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature</em>. In keeping with the conventions of the wild animal story, boundary crossings in Atwood’s novel engage in indigenizing fantasy. Despite its powerful warning of imminent disaster,<em> Oryx and Crake</em> nevertheless obscures ongoing colonializing acts by privileging a settler subject-position conceived as endangered by the forces of modernity}, number={1}, journal={Studies in Canadian Literature}, author={Frew, Lee}, year={2014}, month={Jun.} }