A “joke-filled romp” through end times: Radical environmentalism, deep ecology, and human extinction in Margaret Atwood’s eco-apocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy

J. Brooks Bouson

doi:10.1177/0021989415573558

A “joke-filled romp” through end times: Radical environmentalism, deep ecology, and human extinction in Margaret Atwood’s eco-apocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy

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Original language	American English
Journal	The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989415573558
State	Published - Sep 1 2016

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Arts and Humanities
Ethics and Political Philosophy

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