James’s novel The Children of Men, its adaptation to the film Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón, and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake offers a means of exposing the way in which power penetrates and manages life, especially under the extreme eventualities of global infertility or radical global bio-engineering. I argue that narrative fictions imagine, expose and critique biopolitical controls over life through the workings of sovereignty and the mechanisms of power that I read through the critical and theoretical perspectives of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. This thesis addresses the imaginary encoding of biopolitics as it operates within the contemporary English-language novel. Fredric Jameson has famously noted that individual narratives have the power to provide imaginary resolutions to the shared, lived contradictions of the material and social world.
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