The Handmaid's Tale and Castoriadis. Between Social Creation and the Imaginary of Catastrophe

Authors

  • Adrián Almazán Gómez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Keywords:

The Handmaid’s Tale, ecology, Castoriadis, sociology, socio-ecological crisis, cultural products

Abstract

In this article I will use the television series The Handmaid’s Tale in two different ways. First, I will take its plot as a way of illustrating some of the main features of the theory of society of the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis. Having done this, I will reflect on the importance of cultural products in social transformation, specifically on the role played by television series in general, and The Handmaid’s Tale in particular, in the possibility of desirable social responses to the socio-ecological crisis in which society is currently immersed.

Author Biography

Adrián Almazán Gómez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Investigador postdoctoral, Insituto DEMOSPAZ, UAM

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Published

2019-07-31

How to Cite

Almazán Gómez, A. (2019). The Handmaid’s Tale and Castoriadis. Between Social Creation and the Imaginary of Catastrophe. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (21), 55–72. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/28067

Issue

No. 21 (2019): Environmental Humanities: Ecocriticism and Cultural Decolonization

Section

Monograph

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