Climate change and the risks of a ecofascist future in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
a historical and ecocritical analysis
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Ecocriticism, Climate change, Literature, HistoryAbstract
This article discusses the contribution of The Handmade’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985), and its literariness to the reflection on the political and social risks that climate change can generate, such as the emergence of an eco-fascist political regime. We read the book published in 1985 and the series started in 2017, paying attention to the nature of each one of the productions. We take these products as part of a great media culture, as well as environmental texts that can be seen through historical analysis and ecocritical analysis, in the current context of ecoanxiety. The novel and the series allow us to understand how cultural productions can be important means for understanding how the theme of climate change and the environmental crisis have generated metaphors about the risks of climate change, past and present, and their sociopolitical consequences.
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