1st Edition
Posthumanity in the Anthropocene Margaret Atwood's Dystopias
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.Introduction to Posthumanism, Guiding Ideas, and Tenets
The Posthuman/Posthumanism
The Anthropocene and Climate Fiction
Dystopias
2. The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments. From Dystopian Departure to Utopian Inspiration
Introduction
The Posthuman: Surveillance and Biotechnological Modifications
The Anthropocene and Climate Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale’s and The Testaments’s Dystopian Character
3. MaddAddam: Eternal Return?
Introduction
The Posthuman Body, Identity, and Ethics
MaddAddam as Cli-Fiction
MaddAddam as Dystopia
4. The Heart Goes Last: Dante’s Inferno in the 21st Century
Introduction
Surveillance and Biotechnology: Gluttony, Greed, and Anger
The Heart Goes Last as a Dystopia: Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Esther Muñoz-González is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her work has been published in journals such as Atlantis and Brno Studies in English and in volumes such as Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative (Routledge).
