An Eco-postcolonial Condition of Cyborg

Present paper addresses some of the theoretical tools from both ecocriticism and post-colonialism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003). It goes through the subject of cyborg as a new species that questions of hybridity of genetically modified organisms, GMOs. This interconnection highlights Atwood’s ultimate aim as a critique ofcapitalist consumerist ideologies to support the marginalized and the oppressed transcending their subaltern’s position.This novel is a speculative fiction that presents a gloomy vision of the world through several references to the advances in biotechnology in the creation of hybrid creatures. The inter-disciplinary characteristics of ecocriticism makes the novel an apocalyptic rendering of the utopian aspects of the myth of creation in biotechnology. It also adopts a postcolonial ethical stance to forge the otherness of the cyborg hybrid position that can encompass numerous late twentieth and early twenty-first century realities in which nature, environment, human and animal can no longer be considered as separate entities. In this regard, Atwood warns the readers against an impending global environmental apocalypse if humans do not take any serious action to save the planet