Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake

Collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.>

List of contents

Series Preface \ Acknowledgments \ 1. Introduction: Negotiating with Margaret Atwood J. Brooks Bouson \ Part I: The Robber Bride (1993) 2. Magical Realism in The Robber Bride and Other Texts Sharon R. Wilson \ 3. Parodic Border Crossings in Atwood's The Robber Bride Hilde Staels \ 4. You're History: Living with Trauma in The Robber Bride Laurie Vickroy \ Part II: The Blind Assassin (2000) 5. "Was I My Sister's Keeper?" The Blind Assassin and
Problematic Feminisms Fiona Tolan \ 6. Narrative Multiplicity and the Multi-layered Self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin Magali Cornier Michael \ 7. "If You Look Long Enough": Photography, Memory, and Mourning in The Blind Assassin Shuli Barzilai \ Part III: Oryx and Crake (2003) 8. Moral/Environmental Debt in Margaret Atwood's Payback and Oryx and Crake Shannon Hengen \ 9. Problematic Paradice: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Karen Stein \ 10. The Apocalyptic Imagination in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Mark Bosco \ Notes on Chapters \ Works Cited \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index

About the author

J. Brooks Bouson is a Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Brooks J. Bouson, J Brooks Bouson
• Assisted by: J. Brooks Bouson (Editor), Sarah Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2010
• EAN: 9780826424372
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-2437-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Continuum Studies in Contempor; Continuum Studies in Contempor; Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction; Bloomsbury Studies in Contempo
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies