LEADER 03928nam 22006255 450 001 9910629296603321 005 20230810180613.0 010 $a9783031191688$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031191671 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-19168-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7134638 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7134638 035 $a(CKB)25301725000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-19168-8 035 $a(BIP)085653699 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925301725000041 100 $a20221110d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFood in Margaret Atwood?s Speculative Fiction /$fby Katarina Labudova 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (151 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Labudova, Katarìna Food in Margaret Atwood's Speculative Fiction Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2022 9783031191671 327 $a1 Fasting and Feasting: Food in Speculative Fiction Novels by Margaret Atwood -- 2 Women as White Meat: Chicken, Eggs and ?Torsos Only? in The Handmaid?s Tale and The Testaments -- 3 Canned Food: Canned Death in Oryx and Crake -- 4 Corporate Cannibalism: The Year of the Flood -- 5 Eating and Story-telling: Maddaddam -- 6 Junk Food and Prison Food: The Heart Goes Last -- 7 Hybrid Genres: Festive Intertextuality and Hungry Reality. 330 $aThis book looks at Margaret Atwood?s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels ? The Handmaid?s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last ? Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural questions at play and the possible future scenarios which emerge for humanity?s survival in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic conditions. Labudova argues that food has special relevance in these novels and that characters? hunger, limited food choices, culinary creativity and eating rituals are central to Atwood?s depictions of hostile environments. She also links food to hierarchy, dominance and oppression in Atwood?s novels, and foregrounds the problem of hunger, both psychological or physical, caused by pollution and loss of contact with the natural and authentic. The book shows how Atwood?s writing draws from a range of genres, including apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, utopia, fairy tale, myth, and thriller ? and how food is an important, highly versatile motif linking these intertextual threads. Katarina Labudova lectures on British and Canadian literature at the Department of English Language and Literature, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Slovakia. She co-edited Presences and Absences: Transdisciplinary Essays (2013). She has published numerous articles on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, identity, monstrosity and the representations of the body and food in postmodern literatures. 606 $aFiction 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature$xAesthetics 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aLiterary Aesthetics 606 $aCultural Studies 610 $aEnglish Literature 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature$xAesthetics. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Aesthetics. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 676 $a809.3 676 $a813.54 700 $aLabudova$b Katarìna$01083828 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910629296603321 996 $aFood in Margaret Atwood's Speculative Fiction$92968254 997 $aUNINA