POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH: A POSTHUMANIST ANALYSIS OF MAGGIE GEE’S THE ICE PEOPLE AND OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S PARABLE OF THE SOWER

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2023-5

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Ay, Büşra

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The purpose of this study is to analyse Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as examples of post-apocalyptic fiction arguing how the catastrophe is narrated in diary forms and the effects of post-apocalyptic contexts in different aspects of societies by discussing them through the perspective of posthumanist theory. Both novels place a dysfunctional society at the centre and criticise the anthropocentric approaches in the aftermaths of the apocalypse by questioning the core of what gives value to a human being in such a planet while presenting a gap between generations in their struggle to build a promising planet again.

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post-apocalyptic fiction, posthumanism, human agency, The Ice People, Parable of the Sower

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103190

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis