“God is a cluster of neurons”: Neo-posthumanism, theocide, theogony and anti-myths of origin in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Authors

  • Eduardo Marks de Marques Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v18i35.32945

Keywords:

transhumanism, posthumanism, dystopias, dystopian body, Oryx and Crake

Abstract

This paper aims to problematise the recent resurgence of literary dystopian narratives in Anglophone literatures, suggesting that such narratives must be read through a perspective that considers the centrality of the dystopian body as a transhuman entity. From the arguments raised by the discussions of transhumanism and posthumanism, the impact of scientific development in the construction of desire, and of the role of theological thought in postmodernity, the goal is to discuss how these ideas appear and are presented in Canadian novelist Margaret Atwoord’s Oryx and Crake.

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Original in English

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Author Biography

  • Eduardo Marks de Marques, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)
    Graduado em Licenciatura em Letras – Português e Inglês (UFRGS, 1999), mestre em Letras – Inglês e Literatura Correspondente (UFSC, 2002) e PhD em Australian Literature and Cultural History (University of Queensland, 2007) e cumpriu Residência Pós-Doutoral em Teoria da Literatura (UFMG, 2014). É Professor Adjunto de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa na Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) desde 2008. Participa do Grupo de Pesquisa Estudos Comparados de Literatura, Cultura e História e coordena o Grupo de Pesquisa Teoria e Crítica Literária e Cultural: Questões Contemporâneas e Metodologia de Ensino, ambos baseados na UFPel. Atua como parecerista de diversos periódicos nacionais e internacionais e atualmente é membro da Comissão Nacional de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Associação Brasileira de Professores Universitários de Inglês (ABRAPUI).

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Published

2013-12-31

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 35 (2013): Contemporary textuality of ruin and resistance

Section

Literature Articles

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“God is a cluster of neurons”: Neo-posthumanism, theocide, theogony and anti-myths of origin in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. (2013). Gragoatá, 18(35). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v18i35.32945