Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity: New Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Living on the Edges: Constructions of Post-Colonial Subjectivity in Atwood’s Early Poetry....Pages 11-50
From ‘Places, Migrations’ to The Circle Game: Atwood’s Canadian and Female Metamorphoses....Pages 51-67
Nearer by Far: The Upset ‘I’ in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry....Pages 68-93
 Surfacing: Separation, Transition, Incorporation....Pages 94-118
Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: Strange Familiarity....Pages 119-132
Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: Writing against Notions of Unity....Pages 133-152
Hope against Hopelessness: Margaret Atwood’s Life Before Man....Pages 153-176
Versions of History: The Handmaid’s Tale and its Dedicatees....Pages 177-188
Gender as Genre: Atwood’s Autobiographical ‘I’....Pages 189-203
Cat’s Eye: Elaine Risley’s Retrospective Art....Pages 204-218
Gender and Narrative Perspective in Margaret Atwood’s Stories....Pages 219-229
‘Yet I Speak, Yet I Exist’: Affirmation of the Subject in Atwood’s Short Stories....Pages 230-247
Interpreting and Misinterpreting ‘Bluebeard’s Egg’: A Cautionary Tale....Pages 248-257
Back Matter....Pages 258-261