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How to survive a dystopian world? Thinking about food in Atwood`s The Year of the Flood and Winterson´s The Stone Gods
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Esta dissertação propõe examinar de que forma as representações de hábitos e práticas alimentares configuram as narrativas distópicas que contemplam a crise climática e projetam visões do futuro suscetíveis de se tornarem realidade, particularmente em The Stone Gods (2007) de Jeanette Winterson e The Year of the Flood (2009) de Margaret Atwood. Além disso, pretende analisar a forma como as referências à alimentação podem expressar um posicionamento de género, particularmente no que toca ao género feminino. Esta análise permite concluir que a comida nas distopias pode representar não apenas desespero, mas também esperança e que se pode estabelecer uma relação entre os hábitos e práticas alimentares e o impulso utópico nestas duas narrativas distópicas.
This dissertation proposes to examine how representations of foodways shape dystopian narratives that cover climate crisis and project visions of the future that are likely to come true. Falling under this category and chosen as case studies are Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009). More than focusing on the way food shapes the narrative, the analysis will also consider how references to food can express gender positioning, particularly when it comes to the female gender. This analysis allows us to conclude that food in dystopias can represent not only despair but also hope, and that it is possible to establish a relationship between foodways and the utopian impulse in these two dystopian narratives.
This dissertation proposes to examine how representations of foodways shape dystopian narratives that cover climate crisis and project visions of the future that are likely to come true. Falling under this category and chosen as case studies are Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009). More than focusing on the way food shapes the narrative, the analysis will also consider how references to food can express gender positioning, particularly when it comes to the female gender. This analysis allows us to conclude that food in dystopias can represent not only despair but also hope, and that it is possible to establish a relationship between foodways and the utopian impulse in these two dystopian narratives.
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Distopia Impulso utópico Ficção Climática Estudos sobre Alimentação Estudos sobre Género Dystopia Utopian impulse Climate Fiction Food Studies Gender Studies