Mapping the Posthuman Condition through Environmental Crisis and Identity: Analysis of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun | ||
| مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية | ||
| Volume 32, Issue 3, January 2025, Pages 435-455 PDF (811.02 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/shak.2025.430905.1881 | ||
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| Abstract | ||
| This study examines the depiction of the posthuman condition through environmental crisis and identity transformation in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. Posthumanism critiques traditional human-centered views by emphasizing human entanglements with nonhuman agents and ecosystems amid ecological crises. Using a mixed-methods approach, this paper combines qualitative thematic analysis with quantitative textual and reader reception data to reveal how these novels reframe subjectivity and ethics in the Anthropocene. The findings highlight the novels’ negotiation of human/nonhuman boundaries and environmental responsibility, advancing interdisciplinary literary scholarship on contemporary posthumanism. Atwood’s trilogy notably explores ecological collapse and regenerative ethics, while Ishiguro’s work addresses existential identity and technological mediation. Both use motifs of crisis—environmental and existential—to imagine posthuman survival and transformation. This paper contributes to critical conversations on ecological sustainability, technological ethics, and innovative narrative forms in English literature, offering insights relevant to broader debates on human and nonhuman coexistence in a changing world. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| posthumanism; environmental crisis; identity transformation; ecocriticism; contemporary English novel | ||
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