It’s All About the Body: Zombification and the Male Gaze in Oryx and Crake and Brown Girl in the Ring

This article seeks to analyse the commodification of women of colour in two dystopian Canadian novels: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), by Nalo Hopkinson, and Oryx and Crake (2003), by Margaret Atwood. I argue that the women in these stories are subjected to similar patriarchal strategies of control....

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Main Author: José V. Alegría-Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2022-10-01
Series:Canada and Beyond
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/30683