This book analyzes Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale, The MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last and The Testaments from perspective of posthuman theory in the Anthropocene. Atwood shows the evolution of Western society's maladies and her own position and response to the changes

Esther Muñoz-González is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her work has been published in journals such as Atlantis and Brno Studies in English and in volumes such as Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative (Routledge).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.Introduction to Posthumanism, Guiding Ideas, and Tenets

The Posthuman/Posthumanism

The Anthropocene and Climate Fiction

Dystopias

2. The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. From Dystopian Departure to Utopian Inspiration

Introduction
The Posthuman: Surveillance and Biotechnological Modifications
The Anthropocene and Climate Fiction
The Handmaid's Tale's and The Testaments's Dystopian Character

3. MaddAddam: Eternal Return?

Introduction
The Posthuman Body, Identity, and Ethics
MaddAddam as Cli-Fiction
MaddAddam as Dystopia

4. The Heart Goes Last: Dante's Inferno in the 21st Century

Introduction
Surveillance and Biotechnology: Gluttony, Greed, and Anger
The Heart Goes Last as a Dystopia: Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery

Conclusion

Index