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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2020
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- Literary visions of post-apocalyptic worlds in the works of Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood and Maggie Gee Gönül Bakay Historia Post apocalypse Anthropocene Speculative science fiction Once hailed as the pinnacle of evolutionary progress, the human subject has more recently been under severe attack due to the destructive potential that has been unleashed by humans, especially in the last two hundred years. As a result, contemporary literature and art is replete with images of a utopia without humans. Many writers see humans, or rather human destructiveness, as the real plague on the planet and offer visions of utopia placed in the post-apocalyptic post-human era. Drawing on Patricia Vieira’s seminal article titled “Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of the Anthropocene”, I will first discuss how Mary Shelley portrayed ecological awareness in her The Last Man. I will then move on to examine how increasing ecological destruction leads to (post)-apocalyptic visions in the works of Margaret Atwood and Maggie Gee. My aim in juxtaposing two contemporary writers with Mary Shelley is to show that despite their different socio-historical contexts, these women writers have produced works that can not only be read as visionary and cautionary tales but that also promote heightened ecological awareness as an antidote to destructive and – ultimately – self-destructive tendencies of humankind. 2020 artículo científico 2175-7976 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=594068829005 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5940/594068829005/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5940/594068829005/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5940/594068829005/594068829005.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5940/594068829005/movil https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e73578 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5940 Esboços: histórias em contextos globais application/pdf Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (Brasil) Num.46 Vol.27