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This collection recognizes prominent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's impact as a highly political writer whose literary oeuvre engages with burning contemporary political questions on the personal, imaginative, scientific, and material level.
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Acknowledgements
Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics: The Artpolitical: An Introduction
DUNJA M. MOHR AND KIRSTEN SANDROCK
1 Margaret Atwood, Writing in the "Carnivalesque" Spirit, against Oppression
THEODORE F. SHECKELS
2 The Human and the Posthuman: Precarious Lives in Margaret Atwood's
The Heart Goes Last SHRADDHA A. SINGH
3 Atwood's Graphic Novels: (Aesthetic) Form and (Political) Function of the
Angel Catbird Trilogy and the
War Bears Series
BRIGITTE JOHANNA GLASER
4 Adaptation as "Artpolitical" Remediation: From
The Handmaid's Tale to
The Testaments and Back
ANNIKA MCPHERSON
5 "We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print": Storytelling and the Politics of In/Visibility
ALESSANDRA BOLLER
6 In_Visibilizing the Gendered History of Slavery: Fertility, Oppression, and the (Black) Female Body in Hulu's
The Handmaid's Tale SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI
7 Resilience and Environmental Futurity in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy
SYLVIA MAYER
8 Which Oryx? A Reading of Intersectionality, Race, and Class Politics through the Narrative Male Gaze
KATHERINE PARSONS
9 Margaret Atwood's
Alias Grace: The Politics and Aesthetics of Writing the Nation
ANCA-RALUCA RADU
10 "To see clearly and without flinching": Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood
LAUREN RULE MAXWELL
11 Afterword: Margaret Atwood's Distribution of the Sensible
CRISPIN SARTWELL
Index
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Dunja M. Mohr, University of Erfurt, Germany, is Vice President of the Margaret Atwood Society and the Society's European Representative. She acts as Head of the Women, Gender, and Diversity Studies Section of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries and serves on the Advisory Boards of
Utopian Studies and
Margaret Atwood Studies. She is the author of the award-winning monograph
Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias and has co-edited several volumes, among them
Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English, "9/11 as Catalyst - American and Cultural Responses" (special issue of
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (with Sylvia Mayer)), and
Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity (with Birgit Däwes).
Kirsten Sandrock holds the Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. She is the author of
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 (2021) and
Gender and Region: Maritime Fiction in English by Canadian Women, 1976-2005 (2009) as well as of numerous articles on Shakespeare and early modern literature, gender studies, Canadian literature, travel writing, Scottish studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. In 2005, she received the Government of Canada Award. She is currently Vice President of the German Shakespeare Association and co-edited, with Lukas Lammers, the
Shakespeare Seminar Online from 2016 to 2023.
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This collection recognizes prominent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's impact as a highly political writer whose literary oeuvre engages with burning contemporary political questions on the personal, imaginative, scientific, and material level.
