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Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden? The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

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dc.creatorBender, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T08:25:03Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T08:25:03Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy investigates this curious form of entertainment by both employing the template of the apocalypse itself, and reflecting on its cause and effect at the same time. The novels reveal how worlds and their respective compasses of good and evil are constructed through story-telling, and that the apocalypse is also a story which functions either as a moral structuring device or as an anaesthetic for the estranged subjects of late capitalism. Assuming a meta-perspective, the MaddAddam Trilogy engenders ethical reflections on possible futures, incorporating recent philosophical strands like transhumanism and posthumanism.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.05:2019.2.3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19502
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/138
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20694
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectPopular Entertainmenten
dc.subjectLongingen
dc.subjectPosthuman Edenen
dc.subjectApocalypseen
dc.subjectMaddAddam Trilogyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personMargaret Atwood
dc.titleJust Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden? The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogyen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-23T10:43:08
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/138
local.source.epage50
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleApocalyptic Imaginings
local.source.spage31
local.source.volume5
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118646168
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183492

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