Oryx e Crake: a naturalização dos espaços distópicos pelo capitalismo

Abstract

This work analyses the representation of capitalist system, in its more recent version, which is neoliberalism, in Margaret Atwood’s book Oryx and Crake. In this work the represented world brings a distopic reality, which is recognized as a capitalist distopia, since the spaces produced in the narrated society in the fiction are spaces in which neoliberalism was widely implemented. The represented space is one of segregation, where walls are the dystopia of the group who can not get in or can not get out. At the same time, they are the utopia of the group who want to keep others out or force others to satay in. This neoliberalism implementation can be verified by the way nothing scape the control of a system which is global, or escape a established order in order to maintain the reproduction of system under discussion, as well as the fact of this order to be viewed as natural and inexorable, not allowing overcoming possibilities, even when this represented world is destroyed.