“Snow lands on top!”: an ecocritical reading of antropocentrism in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2176-8552.2026.e99757Keywords:
anthropocene, Ecocriticism, capitalism, dystopia, The Hunger GamesAbstract
The article aims to analyze the dystopian narrative in The Hunger Games (2008), first volume of the trilogy with the same title, by the American writer Suzanne Collins, from the perspective of Ecocritical Studies. A special approach will be given to the Capital and its ruler, the President Coriolanus Snow, based on the idea of how the character’s condition exposes the anthropocentric authoritarianism that permeates the post-apocalyptic context in the work. Therefore, the research establishes the understanding about the overcoming of limits that the human triggers from when he/she aims the individual evolution and the consolidation of power by the manipulation of human and non-human elements that constitutes the Planet through the proximity of the capitalist yearning and the anthropocentric reality observed by contemporary studies.
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