Reinterpreting Hunger: Ecological Anxieties and Cannibalistic Foodways in Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed and Joseph D’Lacey’s MEAT
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2023
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Kapadokya Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim, Öğretim ve Araştırma Enstitüsü
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This thesis delves into the analysis of two dystopian novels from twentieth – and twenty-first-century English literature: Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed (1962) and Joseph D’Lacey’s MEAT (2008). The primary focus is on the cannibalism metaphor employed by the narratives. A notable contrast emerges in their use of the cannibalism metaphor: The Wanting Seed employs man-eating as a response to acute circumstances, portraying crude cannibalism in the face of food scarcity, overpopulation, and ecological degradation. In contrast, MEAT reflects vast ecological annihilation and presents cannibalism and capitalism as the two complementary facets. The cannibalism metaphor takes an industrial form, with human bodies being produced and processed akin to factory farming industries. In the broader context of English literature, where the cannibalism metaphor has been employed to project various societal concerns and anxieties, these selected dystopian novels specifically reflect the ecological anxieties of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through their use of cannibalism. Overpopulation and resource scarcity were prominent eco-anxieties in the twentieth century and continue to be pressing concerns in the twenty-first century; however, emerging issues such as species extinction, the sense of ecological annihilation and fear have become more prominent. The gradual increase in ecological degradation, particularly in the twenty-first century, intensifies contemporary ecoanxieties. The magnitude shift observed in the representation of cannibalism and industrialised cannibalism parallels the shift in eco-anxieties, offering a radical response to the escalating ecological degradation and heightened sense of eco-anxiety.
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Eco-anxiety, The Wanting Seed, MEAT, cannibalism, ecological annihilation, factory farming
