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  • Chapter 6 - Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene

  • Theophilus Savvas, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
    Published online:
    30 May 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2024, pp 174-205

  • Summary

    This chapter explores fiction of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century in the twin contexts of American writing after postmodernism and climate change. It argues that Ruth L. Ozeki’s My Year of Meat and Jonathan Franzen’s Purity both ultimately undermine the connection between individual agency and effective political action – the former because of its vacillating metamodernist sensibility, and the latter as a consequence of the author’s retreat to realism and undermining of character – but that Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker, by gesturing towards a posthumanist perspective, intimates a way through the impasse.