Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai

Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai
Author: Naadiya Yaqoob Mir
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527525139

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This book highlights the everyday trauma that women experience while finding themselves as victims of a deeply masculine and prejudiced milieu. It details a kind of counter-memory, broadening readers’ awareness about women’s trauma narratives. The works analysed here are all authored by women, and have significant claims to be treated as feminist trauma fiction, that is, as novels that are preoccupied with a socio-political analysis of women’s status and that espouse social or psychological transformation. The book will serve to expand the reader’s awareness of trauma by engaging them with personalised means of narration that highlight the troubled ambivalence of traumatic memory and warn us that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended. For both Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai, trauma emerges as a major and dominating theme in their works. In spite of being culturally separate, both Atwood and Desai show striking similarities as far as their art of writing is concerned.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571131393

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Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the most fascinating, versatile, and productive authors of our time, a superb writer in any genre she chooses to tackle. This book was prepared on the occasion of Atwood's sixtieth birthday in November 1999. Its first aim is therefore to take stock of Atwood's multifarious works and international impact at the height of her creative powers. Secondly, the book serves as a wide-ranging introduction to the writer and her works. Fifteen informative articles written specifically for this volume by Atwood specialists from Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, and France treat her life and status, her works (up-to-date survey articles on Atwood's novels, short fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism), and important approaches to her works (from the standpoints of gender politics, mythology, ecology, popular culture, constructivism, and Canadian nationalism). A final section on creativity, transmission, and reception includes an interview with Atwood on creativity, statements by some of Atwood's important transmitters, including publishers, editors, literary agents, and translators, and some 15 statements by Atwood's fellow writers, in which they explore her importance for them. A number of photographs of Atwood, several cartoons drawn by her, an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Atwood, and an index round out the volume. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Rama Gupta
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781932705638

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Margaret Atwood, b. 1939, Canadian litterateur.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: John Moss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. Her success, however, has been double-edged: the very popularity that makes her such a prominent figure in the literary world also renders her vulnerable to claims of being a "sell-out," as she relates in her Empson lectures. The Open Eye negotiates the space between these positions, acknowledging Atwood's remarkable achievement while considering how it impacts on national politics and identity. The range of perspectives in this volume is stimulating and enlightening. The Open Eye begins with a focus on Atwood as she presents herself and is presented in Canada and abroad, and then proceeds to consider, more broadly, the intersection of life and literature that Atwood's works and persona effect. It offers fresh insight into Atwood's early writing, redresses the critical void regarding her poetry and shorter prose pieces, and provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's most recent novels. A common thread throughout these essays is the recognition of Atwood's importance in the literary realm in general, and in Canadian literature more particularly.

Margaret Atwood and Social Justice

Margaret Atwood and Social Justice
Author: Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527590992

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Margaret Atwood and Social Justice eventually presents a loose ideology evident in the author’s major works of prose fiction. It insists, however, that Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue, and that, therefore, this ideology evolves over her career, always secondary to her presenting stories and characters and, through them, ideas. Throughout her career, Atwood has been concerned about the social injustice experienced by women. After expressing concern for the plight of the environment in Surfacing and workers in Life Before Man, Atwood turned quite political in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid’s Tale, blending her concern for justice for women with criticism of present-day Third-World and future right-wing governments. Atwood, then, turned inward, looking at how those denied justice often do the same to others and turned to history, looking at injustice tied to social class. She later brought many of her concerns together in The Blind Assassin and, especially, the three books that comprise the MaddAddam trilogy. Later works such as The Heart Goes Last, Hag-Seed, and The Testaments add to the picture most fully articulated in The Blind Assassin, which looks back at the 1930s, and the MaddAddam books, which look ahead to a future marked by global warming, corporate oppression, and pandemic. As argued here, these later books strengthen her indictment of corporations, which oppress for the sake of profit, and offer her most straightforward recognition that race plays a major role in whether social justice is served or not.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Kathryn VanSpanckeren
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780809314089

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A prolific writer and versatile social critic, Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has recently published Bluebeard’s Egg (short stories), Interlunar (poetry), and The Handmaid’s Tale a critically acclaimed best-selling novel. This international collection of essays evaluates the complete body of her work—both the acclaimed fiction and the innovative poetry. The critics represented here—American, Australian, and Canadian—address Atwood’s handling of such themes as feminism, ecology, the gothic novel, and the political relationship between Canada and the United States. The essays on Atwood’s novels introduce the general reader to her development as a writer, as she matures from a basically subjective, poetic vision, seen in Surfacing and The Edible Woman, to an increasingly engaged, political stance, exemplified by The Handmaid’s Tale. Other essays examine Atwood’s poetry, from her transformation of the Homeric model to her criticisms of the United States’ relationship with Canada. The last two critical essays offer a unique view of Atwood through an investigation of her use of the concept of shamanism and through a presentation of eight of her vivid watercolors. The volume ends with Atwood presenting her own views in an interview with Jan Garden Castro and in a conversation between Atwood and students at the University of Tampa, Florida.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 1438113307

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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood's Power

Margaret Atwood's Power
Author: Shannon Eileen Hengen
Publisher: Sumach Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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In this incisive feminist analysis, Hengen provides a psychoanalytic overview examining Atwood's treatment of women and power. Who has power? Who abuses it? By looking at Atwood's characters, Hengen raises some important issues about her writing. In her novels and poems Atwood's protagonists explore the lives of their mothers and grandmothers in order to reflect on the lives and struggles we confront today. Using the metaphor of narcissism-both progressive and regressive-and the mirror imagery that threads through Atwood's work, Hengen gives a feminist reading to the work of this important Canadian author. Hengen argues that the connections women are able to make between their own lives today and the lives portrayed by Atwood account in part for the writer's wide popularity. An important contribution, Margaret Atwood's Power is a thought-provoking evaluation which provides new insights into Margaret Atwood's work and popularity.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood
Author: Fiona Tolan
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 904202223X

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"This book examines the novels of Margaret Atwood in conjunction wit the development of second-wave feminism, and attempts to demonstrate the existence of a dynamic relationship between her fiction and feminist theory." --introd.