“New Planets for Old”: A Posthumanist Ecocritical Approach to Jeanette Winterson’s Ustopia
“New Planets for Old”: A Posthumanist Ecocritical Approach to Jeanette Winterson’s Ustopia

Summary/Abstract: Jeanette Winterson’s 2007 novel The Stone Gods reflects its author’s propensity for experimental writing in both form and content, as well as her unwavering commitment to anti-corporatism, ecological praxis, posthuman ethical theory and non-anthropocentric post-humanist models, revealing her compulsion to whimsically interrogate dominant conceptions of what it means to be human. This paper offers a clearly-articulated analysis of this Wintersonian ustopia performed through the lenses of recent theoretically interconnected fields such as environmental literary criticism and contemporary critical posthumanism.

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