Environmental Issues in Contemporary Canadian Novels

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals predominantly with the concepts of anthropocentrism and ecofeminism, alongside the connected concepts of ecocriticism and androcentrism in the contemporary Canadian selected novels - Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which consists of Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam and Nina Munteanu's A Diary in the Age of Water. With support from academic sources, the thesis consists of a theoretical background introducing the concepts used for the analysis of the novels. Namely, the concepts are used to compare the contrasts and similarities in the depiction of the dystopian future envisioned by Atwood and Munteanu.