Oscillazioni tra materno umano e inumano in The Handmaid's Tale di Margaret Atwood

Handmaids in The Handmaid’s Tale are subhuman creatures, versions of the “simulacrum”, deprived of any kind of identity. They are mothers: the matrix conquered by a totalitarianism that has their body in order to dominate reproduction. This ustopia presents an open-ended finale that extends the story up to the transmedial TV adaptation. Disclosing an escalation of liminal violence, the storytelling is inserted between the abjection and the holiness of a typical monstrous maternal. This analysis connects the mother-Handmaid to the cyborg: in feminist cyberpunk, a partial, assembled and denatured identity that will attempt to make a new overcoming utopia. How can a scientific and technological reworked version of identity release the feminine from mistreatment and exploitation? Dissolving binary ideologies like those between man and women, human and animal, organic and inorganic, that are all regulated by dystopian fluctuations between human and inhuman.