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Seeking an Ecological Hope —Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam
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The narrative of MaddAddam, the final in Atwood’s MaddAddam triology, seeks an ecologically alternative culture. Even if the theme of the novel is oriented toward eco-friendly thoughts, the relevant narrative resists any essentialist view of nature. Thus, the author seems to take a dialogical stance between eco-centrism and anthropocentrism. To allow her thematic resiliency, Atwood employs a two-way narrative in the book; Toby, the central narrator’s story gives way to Blackbeard’s simplified version of the same story. By presenting three female ‘God’s Gardeners’ interspeciesial mating & proliferating with male Crakers, she even examines a possibility of transhumanism, which seemingly belies eco-friendly message in the novel. Furthermore, the author’s eco-critical position seems to turn more blurred when it comes to polarized characterization in terms of ecological perspective, However, Atwood’s deconstructive narrative is more like a bridge that the readers should across to reach her environmental pragmatism. As well-known, the pragmatic view of nature rejects any supernatural or trans-empirical idea or knowledge. Atwood takes an environmental pragmatist’s stance when she promotes dialogical solutions to today’s ecological problem by way of subverting both dualistic views of nature, eco-centrism and anthropocentrism.
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The narrative of MaddAddam, the final in Atwood’s MaddAddam triology, seeks an ecologically alternative culture. Even if the theme of the novel is oriented toward eco-friendly thoughts, the relevant narrative resists any essentialist view of nature. Thus, the author seems to take a dialogical stance between eco-centrism and anthropocentrism. To allow her thematic resiliency, Atwood employs a two-way narrative in the book; Toby, the central narrator’s story gives way to Blackbeard’s simplified version of the same story. By presenting three female ‘God’s Gardeners’ interspeciesial mating & proliferating with male Crakers, she even examines a possibility of transhumanism, which seemingly belies eco-friendly message in the novel. Furthermore, the author’s eco-critical position seems to turn more blurred when it comes to polarized characterization in terms of ecological perspective, However, Atwood’s deconstructive narrative is more like a bridge that the readers should across to reach her environmental pragmatism. As well-known, the pragmatic view of nature rejects any supernatural or trans-empirical idea or knowledge. Atwood takes an environmental pragmatist’s stance when she promotes dialogical solutions to today’s ecological problem by way of subverting both dualistic views of nature, eco-centrism and anthropocentrism.
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