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9780791059265

Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791059265

  • ISBN10:

    079105926X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-02-01
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
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Summary

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Amin Malak, J. Brooks Bouson, Hilde Staels, and other scholars.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note vii
Introduction 1(2)
Harold Bloom
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition
3(8)
Amin Malak
Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale
11(10)
Roberta Rubenstein
``Trust Me'': Reading the Romance Plot in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
21(20)
Madonne Miner
The Misogyny of Patriarchal Culture in The Handmaid's Tale
41(22)
J. Brooks Bouson
Off the Path to Grandma's House in The Handmaid's Tale
63(18)
Sharon Rose Wilson
``The Missionary Position'': Feminism and Nationalism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
81(12)
Sandra Tomc
The Handmaid's Tale: Dystopia and the Paradoxes of Power
93(20)
Glenn Deer
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Resistance through Narrating
113(14)
Hilde Staels
Margaret Atwood's Modest Proposal: The Handmaid's Tale
127(14)
Karen Stein
What Is Real/Reel? Margaret Atwood's ``Rearrangement of Shapes on a Flat Surface,'' or Narrative as Collage
141(14)
Marta Dvorak
The Handmaid's Tale: ``Historical Notes'' and Documentary Subversion
155(12)
Dominick M. Grace
Chronology 167(4)
Contributors 171(2)
Bibliography 173(4)
Acknowledgments 177(2)
Index 179

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Excerpts

Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.

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