Food in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction

Acknowledgements
Contents
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1 Fasting and Feasting: Food in Speculative Fiction Novels by Margaret Atwood
	1.1 Feasting on Genres: Genre Hybridity
	1.2 Crumbs of Hope in Atwood’s Post-Apocalyptic Scenarios
	1.3 Edible Atwood: Food and Atwood’s Fiction
	1.4 Atwood’s Dystopian Cuisine
	Works Cited
2 Women as White Meat: The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments
	2.1 Milk and Eggs: Women and Food
	2.2 Cooking Women and Cooking the Women
	2.3 Hunger Pangs: Food and Freedom
	2.4 Butter and Sugar: Food and Rebellion
	Works Cited
3 Canned Food and Canned Death: Oryx and Crake
	3.1 Frankenfood, Ersatz Food, Pseudo-Food: Food and Technology
	3.2 Eating Death: Food and Disgust
	3.3 Pharmakon: Food and Poison
	3.4 Enter Oryx: (Metaphorical) Cannibalism
	Works Cited
4 Corporate Cannibalism: The Year of the Flood
	4.1 Saved by Bees and Plants: Food and Medicine
	4.2 Eating Fear and Violence: Food and Emotions
	4.3 Vegetarian Revolution: Food as a Subversive Act
	4.4 Sex Toy You Can Eat: Food and Sex
	Works Cited
5 Eating and Storytelling: MaddAddam
	5.1 Crisis in Paradice: Food and Hunger
	5.2 Coffee, Stories and Funerals: Food and Rituals
	5.3 Kiss Your Morning Toast Goodbye: Food and Manners Must Evolve
	5.4 Eating the Words: Food and Mouth
	Works Cited
6 Junk Food and Prison Food: The Heart Goes Last
	6.1 Starving for You: Food and Romance
	6.2 Dystopian and Utopian Undertones: Food and Place
	6.3 Fasting Freedom and Feasting Prison: Food and Propaganda
	6.4 Prison Carnival: Fantastic Feasts and Alcohol Haze
	Works Cited
7 Hybrid Genres: Festive Intertextuality and Hungry Reality
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Index