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Contemporary environmental crisis fiction and the post-theory era
Louise Squire
threat of the end of our species should we fail to change our ways. Of the novels that employ ecological death-facing as a thematic device, some, such as the three books of Atwood’s trilogy, nonetheless do make certain use of environmental apocalypse, linking the ends of humanity, or of the Earth that sustains us, to our environmentally destructive behaviours. Yet they also tend to play off this apocalyptic trope, employing it as a device by which to introduce layers of ambiguity. In the MaddAddam trilogy, the question of perspective is raised in the entwining of two