“Footprint”: The Apocalyptic Imprint of End as Immanent in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

What is it about?

'Footprint' explores Atwood speculative visions of loss & extinction in cultural, linguistic, economic & ecological forms – and of altered forms of survival. I also examine the apocalyptic paradigm by drawing on literary criticism of Kermode, Buell and McKibben.

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Why is it important?

"Oryx and Crake" can be read as a cautionary tale, an imaginative warning against what could very readily happen. Writers such as McKibben and Buell amply and ably remind us that the fate of humankind rests on the ability of writers such as Atwood to stir people’s imaginations such that a sense of crisis becomes imminent rather than remaining merely immanent.