Session Details

Saturday, 08 January

460. Ecocritical Perspectives on Margaret Atwood’s Recent Fiction

10:15–11:30 a.m., Platinum Salon B, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Margaret Atwood Society

Presiding: Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

1. “Oryx and Crake as Ecofeminist Fiction,” Lauren J. Lacey, Edgewood Coll.

2. “‘O Honey. You’re My Only Hope. Don’t Let Me Down’: Oryx and Nature in Jimmy’s Extinctathon Game of Life,” Lynda Hall, Univ. of Calgary

3. “Feminist Political Ecology and Reading The Year of the Flood,” Amanda Thibodeau, Univ. of Miami

4. “‘The Echoing Green’: Blakean Form in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood,” Danette DiMarco, Slippery Rock Univ.

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