Political in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
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Alias Grace
Atwood's Fiction
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Atwood’s Fiction
Atwood’s Vision
Atwood’s Work
Author_Theodore F. Sheckels
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Button Factory
Cat's Eye
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Cat’s Eye
Edible Woman
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feminist literary criticism
Free Woman
Girl Friends
globalisation and fiction
God's Gardeners
God’s Gardeners
Gothic Romance
Grace Marks
Handmaid's Tale
Handmaid’s Tale
Hott Totts
institutional oppression
Jimmy's Father
Jimmy’s Father
Joan Foster
Joan's Story
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Lady Oracle
Love Power
postcolonial literary studies
power
power dynamics analysis
resistance in contemporary novels
Robber Bride
Simon Jordan
social class in literature
threat
Threat Power
Word Smith
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409433798
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood's fiction, Theodore F. Sheckels examines Atwood's novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Whether her treatment is explicit as in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid's Tale or by means of an exploration of interiority as in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, Atwood's persistent concern is with how the empowered act towards those who are constrained within the political, economic and social institutions that facilitate power dynamics. Sheckels identifies an increasing sophistication in Atwood's exposition of power over time that is revealed in the later novels' engagement with social class, postcolonialism, and a globalism that merges science and commerce as issues relevant to politics and power. Acknowledging that Atwood is not a political theorist but a novelist, Sheckels does not suggest that her work should be viewed as political commentary but rather as a creative treatment of the laudable but ultimately only partially successful ways in which women and other groups resist the constraints placed on them by institutionalized oppression.
Theodore F. Sheckels is Professor of English and Communication Studies at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, USA. The founding editor of Margaret Atwood Studies and the current President of the Margaret Atwood Society, he is the author of several studies of Commonwealth literatures and U.S. and Commonwealth political communication.
