ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 offers a reading of the three books of Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2007) and MaddAddam (2013). The chapter demonstrates how these three books variously explore the human subject at a time of environmental crisis and offers a reading of ‘death-facing ecology’ that revolves around the human imagination, culminating in imageries of the posthuman. The chapter applies Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself (2005) and Timothy Morton’s The Ecological Thought (2010) in order to demonstrate the possibility of a performative ethics that engages an ecological conception of death in the human subject, as a means by which we might respond to the environmental crisis.
