Eddiecational | The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood - Book Discussion @eddiecational | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
I've literally just realised as I'm writing this description that Atwood really loves calling characters Glenn in her 'dystopian' fiction - what is it about Glenn and the end of the world? Wild. Anyway, hope you enjoyed watching this video about the second book in Atwood's MaddAddam series - let me know what you thought of the book below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Plot Summary
05:54 Theme 1: The Gardeners
08:24 Theme 2: Consumptive Capitalism
10:08 Theme 3: Peaceful protest vs direct resistance
12:39 Concluding Thoughts & Wrap-up
Articles Referenced
Brooks Bouson, J., 2011. “We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.
Canavan, G., 2012. Hope, But Not for Us: Ecological Science Fiction and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
Hummel, K.E., 2019. Strange Kinship Matters: Cultivating an Ecofeminist Ethics of Place in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.
Morgan, L., 2019. “The Earth Forgives”: Environmental Imagination, Adaptation, and Resilience in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood.
Wright, L., 2015. Vegans, Zombies, and Eco-Apocalypse: McCarthy's The Road and Atwood's Year of the Flood.
Inaccessible Rail: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island_rail
Article about Carp: theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/29/15-carp-species-extinct-philippines-aoe
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I've literally just realised as I'm writing this description that Atwood really loves calling characters Glenn in her 'dystopian' fiction - what is it about Glenn and the end of the world? Wild. Anyway, hope you enjoyed watching this video about the second book in Atwood's MaddAddam series - let me know what you thought of the book below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Plot Summary
05:54 Theme 1: The Gardeners
08:24 Theme 2: Consumptive Capitalism
10:08 Theme 3: Peaceful protest vs direct resistance
12:39 Concluding Thoughts & Wrap-up
Articles Referenced
Brooks Bouson, J., 2011. “We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.
Canavan, G., 2012. Hope, But Not for Us: Ecological Science Fiction and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
Hummel, K.E., 2019. Strange Kinship Matters: Cultivating an Ecofeminist Ethics of Place in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.
Morgan, L., 2019. “The Earth Forgives”: Environmental Imagination, Adaptation, and Resilience in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood.
Wright, L., 2015. Vegans, Zombies, and Eco-Apocalypse: McCarthy's The Road and Atwood's Year of the Flood.
Inaccessible Rail: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island_rail
Article about Carp: theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/29/15-carp-species-extinct-philippines-aoe
Socials:
My Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/eddiecational
My Instagram: instagram.com/eddiecational_
My Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/26431802-eddie
#Atwood #Booktube #Eddiecational
