Cyborg Space in Oryx and Crake

Abstract

As science and technology gains steam, relationships or contradictions with human species and between humans and other groups are increasingly of vital importance. And with a seemingly chaotic new world created by modern science, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is an essential piece of work to analyze humans’ living condition during a post-humanistic world. Therefore, based on Haraway’s cyborg theory, this study intends to have a discussion on the realization of cyborg space in Oryx and Crake from the perspective of ambiguous boundary between males and females, humans and animals, and nature and human civilization, so as to advocate a space or society of high hybridity and ambiguity, free from superiority, prejudice or dualism.