Abstract:The (post)apocalyptic landscapes Margaret Atwood depicts in her Oryx and Crake reveal her criticism on extreme scientism. In terms of the Indian American anthropologist Arjun Appadurais landscapes, there exist three landscapes of symbolic meaning and flowing conception in the novel: the highly exclusive bioengineered world, represented by RejoovenEsence compound where power, financial group interest, fictional locality are interwoven together; the pleeblands, unlike the wellprotected and wellmonitored compounds, are but the outcome of the experiments of scientific civilization, where debris is dumped and virus and crime flourish, displaying a landscape of despair; the postapocalyptic world, where the wasteland casts doubt on a belief that scientific utopia created through genetic engineering is what man pursues.
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