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2 days ago · Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale," published in 1985, presents a chilling vision of a theocratic society where women are subjugated and stripped of their identities. Central to this narrative is the theme of othering—the process by which individuals are marginalized and dehumanized based on their differences or perceived threats to the social order.
1 day ago · About the author: Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She was President of the Writers’ Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986.
14 hours ago · Atwood, Margaret & Rene Nalt. The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel. reviewsmith culture, family, graphic novel, religion, sexuality, women 6 July 2024. NY: Doubleday, 2019. I don’t care much for dystopian fiction in general, but I’ve been a big fan of Margaret Atwood’s work for a very long time, so I automatically picked up what is ...
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1 day ago · Summary. In the 21st century, a new genre of Anglophone fiction has emerged—the climate change novel, often abbreviated as “cli-fi.” Many successful authors of literary fiction, such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T. C. Boyle, Michael Crichton, Ian McEwan, Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula Le Guin, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Marcel Theroux, have contributed to this new genre’s efforts to ...
5 days ago · “Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary,” which draws upon Amelina’s interviews with 11 women who had been documenting war crimes since the Russian invasion, was left unfinished. Her husband, Oleksandr Amelin, was among those who helped edit and complete the book, which will include a foreword by Margaret Atwood.
3 days ago · The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees. A Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today.
