“New Planets for Old”: A Posthumanist Ecocritical Approach to Jeanette Winterson’s Ustopia

Abstract

Jeanette Winterson’s 2007 novel The Stone Gods reflects its author’s propensity for experimental writing in both form and content, as well as her unwavering commitment to anti-corporatism, ecological praxis, posthuman ethical theory and non-anthropocentric post- humanist models, revealing her compulsion to whimsically interrogate dominant conceptions of what it means to be human. This paper offers a clearly-articulated analysis of this Wintersonian ustopia performed through the lenses of recent theoretically interconnected fields such as environmental literary criticism and contemporary critical posthumanism.