Abstract
Abstract: In the contemporary epic novel Cloud Atlas (2004), David Mitchell creates fictive worlds spanning hundreds of years to reveal the consequences of industrial capitalism on a global scale. The dystopic near-future section of the novel, where most of the earth's natural resources have been obliterated due to mass nuclear explosions, explores a consumer class society fueled by late-stage capitalism that fabricates nature to survive—even if that means recycling the human body. Sonmi-451, an Asian female clone, narrates the story of a nightmarish fantastical world where present-day factory farming practices manufacture human bodies instead of animals. In this paper, I draw parallels from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974) to trace how slaughter has been perceived in relation to dystopian imaginings of meat production.
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