Journal article
Pigoons, Rakunks and Crakers: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Genetically Engineered Animals in a (Latourian) Hybrid World
Law and Humanities, Vol.7(2), pp.218-239
2013
Abstract
In this article I develop a concept of hybridity for genetically engineered animals by referencing Bruno Latour in my reading of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003). While Oryx and Crake is full of hybrids, it (like many other novels incorporating hybrids) depicts a particular kind of hybrid: a hybrid that is a corporeal mixture of animal-animal, animal-human or animal-machine. Informed by Bruno Latour's theory of hybridity-a theory that weaves together all sorts of human and material actors-this article messes up Atwood's hybrid world, and brings to the fore the mixture of actors that allow pigoons, rakunks, wolvogs and Crakers to exist. In so doing this article proposes a hybrid reading of genetically engineered animals that takes individual actors seriously, but by the same token, does not neglect the messy and contingent weaving together of biotechnology, politics, attitudes, practices, values, commerce and law.
Details
- Title
- Pigoons, Rakunks and Crakers: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Genetically Engineered Animals in a (Latourian) Hybrid World
- Authors
- Jay Sanderson (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Law and Humanities, Vol.7(2), pp.218-239
- Publisher
- Hart Publishing
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.5235/17521483.7.2.218
- ISSN
- 1752-1483; 1752-1483
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448753302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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