| Description |
x, 261 pages : portrait ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Colin Nicholson -- 1. Living on the Edges: Constructions of Post-Colonial Subjectivity in Atwood's Early Poetry / Colin Nicholson -- 2. From 'Places, Migrations' to The Circle Game: Atwood's Canadian and Female Metamorphoses / Judith McCombs -- 3. Nearer by Far: The Upset 'I' in Margaret Atwood's Poetry / Dennis Cooley -- 4. Surfacing: Separation, Transition, Incorporation / David Ward -- 5. Margaret Atwood's Surfacing: Strange Familiarity / Peter Quartermaine -- 6. Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: Writing against Notions of Unity / Eleonora Rao -- 7. Hope against Hopelessness: Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- 8. Versions of History: The Handmaid's Tale and its Dedicatees / Mark Evans -- 9. Gender as Genre: Atwood's Autobiographical 'I' / Sherrill Grace -- 10. Cat's Eye: Elaine Risley's Retrospective Art / Coral Howells -- 11. Gender and Narrative Perspective in Margaret Atwood's Stories / Dieter Meindl |
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12. 'Yet I Speak, Yet I Exist': Affirmation of the Subject in Atwood's Short Stories / Isabel Carrera Suarez -- 13. Interpreting and Misinterpreting 'Bluebeard's Egg': A Cautionary Tale / W. J. Keith |
| Summary |
This is the first collection of essays published in the United Kingdom to focus upon a writer who already enjoys an international reputation. It is a part of Atwood's unique achievement that she manages to sustain her popularity with reading publics around the world as she brings feminist perspectives to bear upon personal and private experience and upon the public structures of power which shape individual lives. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, and including European and North American contributions, the essays gathered here explore how as a woman writer Atwood articulates the pressures and determinations which condition the feminine before allowing it to speak for itself, and how as a Canadian she explores the complicated relationships between representation and self-representation in a world of vastly uneven distributions of power and responsibility. A unique combination of feminist and postcolonial perspectives, it examines Atwood's poetry and short fiction as well as her novels |
| Analysis |
Canada |
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English literature |
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Canada |
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English literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Nicholson, Colin.
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| LC no. |
93006300 |
| ISBN |
0312106440 |
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0333564758 (U.K. : hbk) |
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