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This book analyses the forms and functions of dystopian writing in Margaret Atwood's novels "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake." After the great success of "The Handmaid's Tale," "Oryx and Crake" is Atwood's latest brilliant dystopia. Both novels provide a shockingly bleak and yet...
Digital Dystopia withMargaret Atwood SarahLacy In today’s era of quick consumption media, we’re lucky to have any words stay relevant ten minutes after they are written. (Just look at how the Tweets of President Donald Trump complaining about Barack Obama golfing too much have aged.) Novelis...
34. “Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia, there’s a little utopia.”― Margaret Atwood 35. “I hope that people will finally come to rea...
Several more books followed, yet it was 1985’s The Handmaid’s Tale that garnered Atwood a massive wave of acclaim and popularity. A prescient warning over what could be, the book chronicles a puritanical, theocratic dystopia in which a select group of fertile women — a condition which ha...
Botha, Leslie CarolHoly Hormones Journal
"Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia." University of Toronto Quarterly 61.2 (1991): 269-279.Stein, Karen F. ‚Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia.‛ University of Toronto Quarterly 61 (1991): 269-79....
dystopiaageingcyberspacespatialitysexualitycontemporary writingOld age and visions of the future are inherently bound with one another, and the realms of dystopian fiction provide scope for a gerontological focus within contemporary literature. A theme that is no...
Mahinur Aksehir
In this chapter the author offers a schizoanalytic reading of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy which involves a conceptual discussion of the close affinity between Atwood's notion of ustopia and immanent dystopia, a productive encounter between the opposite forces of the capitalist axiomatic and ...