Literary visions of post-apocalyptic worlds in the works of Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood and Maggie Gee

AutorGönül Bakay
CargoPhD. Professor, Bahçe?ehir University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, American Culture and Literature, ?stanbul, Turkey
Páginas405-425
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 27, n. 46, p. 405-425, set./dez. 2020.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e73578
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LITERARY VISIONS OF POST-
-APOCALYPTIC WORLDS IN THE
WORKS OF MARY SHELLEY, MARGARET
ATWOOD AND MAGGIE GEE
Gönül Bakaya
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0444-6563
Email: gonulbakay@gmail.com
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DEBATE
Antropoceno, utopia e distopia
histórias em contextos globais
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 27, n. 46, p. 405-425, set./dez. 2020.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e73578 406/623
ABSTRACT
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
       

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

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.
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