Doğanın ve insan olmayanın tasviri ve edebiyatın önemi: Margaret Atwood'un oryx and crake (Antilop ve Flurya) ve Jeanette Winterson'ın The Stone Gods (Taş Tanrılar) romanlarına ekokritik yaklaşım

This dissertation examines the representation of nature and non-humans in two contemporary dystopian novels, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods (2007). By their representation of the other and their ecologically sensitive narration, these two early 21st-century post-apocalyptic novels go beyond humanism's anthropocentric worldview and reveal blindspots of human-centred narratives and depict human and non-human as interconnected lives. They explore the alternative relationships between humans and nonhumans. I discuss the two novels to understand what they are telling us about the ecological degradation of the world since, without the representation of the other, there cannot be a solution to contemporary ecological and political problems we are facing. I also question the significance and function of literature both for the characters and for the readers. I speculate about what these texts can potentially offer us in the age of Anthropocene. I also focus on some examples from the texts to discuss that representation of the non-human has various challenges and cannot escape being logocentric.