Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  1741. The Handmaid’s Tale. London: Vintage, 1996.

  1742. The Handmaid’s Tale. New York: Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine, 1996. Large print edition.

  1743. “Homelanding.” Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology, and the Future. Ed. Jeanne Schinto. New York: Persea Books, 1996. 3-7. Reprinted from Good Bones and Simple Murders, ©1983, 1992, 1994.

  1744. “Hurricane Hazel.” Woman’s Hour 50th Anniversary Short Story Collection. Ed. Di Speirs. London: Penguin, 1996. 85-109. Reprinted from Bluebeard’s Egg, ©1987.

  1745. “It All Comes Together for Cohen.” Globe and Mail 28 September 1996: D17. Review of Matt Cohen’s latest novel, Last Seen. Favorable review includes the following: “Cards on the table: I know Matt Cohen. More cards: I’ve known him for decades. Yet more cards: I once acted as his editor, back in the early ’70s when I was giving blood for small Canadian literary publishing at the House of Anansi Press. The reader has a right to know such things.”

  1746. La novia ladrona. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 1996. Spanish translation of The Robber Bride by Jordi Mustieles.

  1747. La petite poule rouge vide son coeur: Nouvelles. Paris: Le Serpent à plumes, 1996. French translation of Good Bones by Hélène Filion.

  1748. La voleuse d’hommes. Paris: Librairie générale française, 1996. French translation of The Robber Bride by Anne Rabinovitch.

  1749. “The Labrador Fiasco.” The Independent 25 August 1996: Section: Books: 24-26. Also published in London as one of 10 “Birthday Quids” by Bloomsbury Press.

  1750. Lady Oracle. New York: Bantam Books, 1996 ©1976.

  1751. Life Before Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1996 ©1980.

  1752. Life Before Man. London: Vintage, 1996 ©1979.

  1753. Ligava laupitaja. Riga [Latvia]: Spriditis, 1996. Latvian translation of The Robber Brid e.

  1754. “Little Chappies with Breasts.” New York Times 101.2 (June 1996): Section 7 (Book Review): 11:1. Review of Hilary Mantel’s novel An Experiment in Love. (1432 w).

  1755. Mati gatas. Athens: Vivliopoleion tes “Hestias” I. D. Kollarou, 1996. 508 pp. Greek translation of Cat’s Eye.

  1756. “Men at Sea.” The Canadian Women Writers’ Engagement Calendar 1996: 26-31.

  1757. Morgon i det brunna huset. Stockholm: Rabaen, Prisma, 1996 ©1995. Swedish translation of Morning in the Burned House by Heidi von Born and Hans Nygren.

  1758. Morning in the Burned House. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

  1759. “Morning in the Burned House.” The Best American Poetry: 1996. Ed. Adrienne Rich. New York: Scribner, 1996. 33-34. Reprinted from the North American Review 280.4 (July 1995): 11.

  1760. Mort en lisière: Nouvelles. Paris: Laffont, 1996. 254 pp. French translation of Wilderness Tips by Francois Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles.

  1761. “My Life as a Bat.” Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories. Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York: Norton, 1996. 17-21. Reprinted from Antaeus 64/65 (Spring-Autumn 1990): 172-175. Reprinted from Good Bones and Simple Murders, ©1994.

  1762. New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. Hardback.

  1763. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver. [Sound recording]. Read by Michael Haughn. Vancouver, BC: CILS [College and Institute Library Services], 1996. 19 cassettes (27 hr., 30 min.). Based on 1995 title.

  1764. The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver. [Sound recording]. [Brantford, ON]: W. Ross MacDonald School, 1996. 5 tape reels. Recorded from 1986 title.

  1765. “P. K. Page as a Non-Snow Angel.” Malahat Review 117 (Winter 1996): 100-101. Poem.

  1766. “Paradoxes and Dilemmas, the Woman as Writer.” Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Mary Eagleton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 103-105. Reprinted from Women in the Canadian Mosaic. Ed. Gwen Matheson. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1976.

  1767. “A Pioneer in Canadian Publishing.” Jack McClelland: The Publisher of Canadian Literature. Guadalajara (Jalisco, México): Universidad de Guadalajara, 1996. 48. Text in English and Spanish. Spanish text in inverted pages. In Spanish: “Un pion-ero de la edición canadiense.” Jack McClelland: El editor de la literatura cana-diense. Guadalajara (Jalisco, México): Universidad de Guadalajara, 1996. 18. A book published as part of University of Guadalajara’s international book fair that honored Canada in 1996.

  1768. Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. London: Virago, 1996. xvii 107. Selected and introduced by Margaret Atwood.

  1769. Power Politics: Poems. Concord, CA: Anansi, 1996. 56. Reissue of the 1971 House of Anansi Press edition. No new material.

  1770. Princesse Prunelle et les pois pourpe. Montreal: Phidal, 1966. 32. French translation of Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut by Maryann Kovalski.

  1771. “A Rich Dessert from a Saucy Carter.” Globe and Mail 6 April 1996: C18. Review of Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter.

  1772. The Robber Bride. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Caruso. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 1996. 15 sound cassettes (21.5 hrs.).

  1773. “Romantic.” New York Times 28 January 1996: Section: 7 (Book Review): 35. Poem. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House, ©1995.

  1774. Røverbruden. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1996. Norwegian translation of The Robber Bride.

  1775. “A Seasonal Insanity.” Boston Globe 8 December 1996: Section: Books: N16. Excerpt from Alias Grace.

  1776. Stories from Wilderness Tips. [Sound recording]. Read by Pat Barlow. Vancouver, BC: Province of British Columbia, 1996. 6 cassettes.

  1777. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature). Hardback.

  1778. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. [Sound recording]. Vancouver, BC: Crane Library, 1996. 3 cassettes. Recorded from 1995 title.

  1779. Surfacing. New York: Bantam Books, 1996 ©1972.

  1780. Survival: A Thematic Guide. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996. Reprint of the 1992 House of Anansi Press edition.

  1781. Taberareru onna. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1996. Japanese translation of The Edible Woman. Title romanized.

  1782. “There Was Once.” Only Connect: Readings on Children’s Literature. 3rd ed. Ed. Sheila Egoff, Gordon Stubbs, Ralph Ashley, and Wendy Sutton. Toronto; New York; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. [350]-352. Poem.

  1783. “Through the One-Way Mirror.” Images through Literature. [Ed.] John Borovilos. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada, 1996. 168-171. Includes study questions, 172-173. Originally published in The Nation 22 March 1987.

  1784. True Trash. Bredbury, UK: National Library for the Blind, 1996. Braille ed., 2 v. Short story.

  1785. “Under the Thumb: How I Became a Poet.” Utne Reader October 1996: 78-81, 107. Reprinted from This Magazine 29.6-7 (March-April 1996): 44.

  1786. “A Voice from the Past.” Maclean’s 109.39 (23 September 1996): 44. Excerpt from Alias Grace.

  1787. “Why I Write Poetry.” This Magazine 29.6-7 (March-April 1996): 44.

  1788. Wilderness Tips. New York: Bantam Books, 1996. 228 pp. Reprint.

  1789. Wilderness Tips. [Sound recording]. Read by Pat Barlow. [Vancouver, BC]: Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia, [1996]. 6 sound cassettes (7 hr., 55 min.). “This audiobook is for the exclusive use of persons unable to read print because of a physical or visual disability.” (Container).

  1790. “Wisdom from the Deep Freeze.” Globe and Mail 16 July 1996: A13. Transcript of the convocation address delivered by Atwood after receiving an honorary doc-tor-of-letters degree from McMaster University on June 4.

  1791. Zbójecka narzeczona. Poznan: Zysk i S-Ka Wydawn, 1996. Polish translation of The Robber Bride by Wieslaw Marcysiak.

  Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  1795. The Handmaid’s Tale = Tjenerindens fortælling. [Musical
Score]. Music by Poul Ruders; [English] libretto by Paul Bentley after Margaret Atwood’s novel. [Copenhagen]: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 1996. Printed music: Operas 1 vocal score (XXI, 563 pp.).

  Quotations

  1796. “[Quote].” Evening Post (Wellington, NZ) 6 April 1996: Section: Features and Opinion: 6. In article entitled “So Much Depravity: I’d Rather Have Hairy Maclary Any Day,” Joanne Black quotes Atwood who wrote that she no longer wanted to read anything sad, violent, or disturbing: “Depression and squalor are for those under 25; they can take it, they can even like it, they still have enough time left.”

  1797. “[Quote].” Globe and Mail 27 April 1996: C1. Commenting at the Trillium Awards on the risk of publishing novels in the 1960s, Atwood noted that then “poetry was the preferred Canadian form….Publishers didn’t think they could make a go of Canadian novels—too many pages.”

  1798. “[Quote].” San Francisco Chronicle 4 June 1996: Section: Daily Datebook: E10. In an article titled “Hate the Book; Love the Group, Though,” Lara Adair quotes Atwood, who once wrote: “Book groups are to late 20th-century America what salons were to 18th-century Paris, and what improvement societies were to Victorians: in other words, an excuse for a party.”

  1799. “[Quote].” Toronto Sun 9 May 1996: Section: Entertainment: 7. In an article titled “Authors Festival Bigger Than Ever,” Wilder Penfield III quotes Atwood on Al Purdy: “He writes like a cross between Shakespeare and a vaudeville comedian (so did Shakespeare).”

  1800. “[Quote].” Toronto Sun 9 June 1996: Section: Comment: C3. In an article entitled “Busy as a Beaver Debunking Old Myths,” John Dowling quotes Atwood’s comment on the 1987 [sic] Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States: “Our national animal is the beaver, noted for its industrious habits and cooperative spirit. In medieval bestiaries it is also noted for its habit, when frightened, of biting off its own testicles and offering them to the pursuer. I hope we are not succumbing to some form of that impulse.”

  1801. “[Quote].” Toronto Star 29 December 1996: Section: Context: F4. In an article entitled “Notables and Non-entities,” Lynda Hurst quotes Atwood’s comment after losing the Booker Prize and $32,000 to fellow author Graham Swift: “It’s not like a horse-race or the Olympics. Not having sex the night before won’t help.”

  1802. “[Quote].” Toronto Sun 10 November 1996: Section: Comment: C10. In an article entitled “Heroine Addict: The Women I Worship,” Heather Mallick quotes At-wood on sex: “Your body with head attached and my body with head attached coincide briefly.”

  1803. “[Quote].” The Woman’s Hour: 50 Years of Women in Britain. By Jenni Murray. London: BBC Books, 1996. 249. Atwood on the word feminist: “Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you, or does feminist mean someone who believes women are human beings? If it’s the latter, I’ll sign up.”

  1804. “[Quotes].” Canada Inside Out: How We See Ourselves; How Others See Us. By David Olive. Toronto: Doubleday, 1996. Atwood quoted on 3, 25, 42, 53, and 56.

  Interviews

  1805. Deux sollicitudes: Entretiens. Trois-Pistoles [QU]: Editions Trois-Pistoles, 1996. This book is based on 20 interviews with Atwood broadcast between 26 January and 7 June 1996 on the stereo (FM) network of Radio-Canada as well as on interviews conducted with Victor-Levy BEAULIEU.

  1806. ABLEY, Mark. “Don’t Ask for the Truth.” The Guardian 5 September 1996: Section: Guardian Features Page: 9. (2254 w).

  1807. BATTERSBY, Eileen. “Out of Canada.” Irish Times 16 April 1996: Section: Arts: 10. Interview with Atwood before her reading at the 10th Court Festival of Literature in Galway. Includes her remark that the Margaret Atwood Society, established in 1982 “embarrasses her” almost as much as the two aspiring biographers who are currently doing research on her. “I really think I should be dead or something, don’t you?” (1827 w).

  1808. BONE, James. “A Woman Possessed.” Times (London) 14 September 1996: Section: Features: s.p. Available from Lexis-Nexis. Atwood, interviewed in her back yard with a splitting headache, faxes author the next day claiming she cannot remember a word she said to him. (2326 w).

  1809. GUSSOW, Mel. “Author Atwood: Alternative Personalities in Life, Art.” Tulsa World 31 December 1996: D3. (1050 w). Originally published in the New York Times 30 December 1996: Section: C: 9 as “The Alternate Personalities in an Author’s Life and Art.”

  1810. KELLY, Karen. Alias Grace [Holiday Reflection]. [Sound recording]. Troy, NY: Sage Colleges; Albany, NY: WAMC Public Radio, 1996. 1 sound cassette (25 min., 9 sec.). Atwood interview about Alias Grace (18 min.) followed by short holiday message. Recorded 12 December 1996.

  1811. LANGDON, Julia. “Not So Weird as Wonderful.” The Herald (Glasgow) 4 October 1996: 21. (1587 w).

  1812. MALLICK, Heather. “Alias Atwood: Our Finest Novelist’s Books Speak for Themselves, but They Don’t Say It All.” Toronto Sun 29 September 1996: Section: Comments and Books: C10. (2595 w). Interview references a radio program, in which Atwood was asked some “desert island” questions. What books might she take? “Very long ones,” Atwood said. What writer would she choose to accompany her? Another participant suggested James Joyce, rhapsodizing, “Ah, but he could talk!” Atwood quite rightly said Joyce would be useless—“couldn’t boil an egg.” She chose Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell...because he could build a fire and do all the cooking. “And not only that, I wouldn’t have to worry about—the SAYX.”

  1813. McLEAN, Sandy. “[Atwood Interviewed].” U.P.I. 29 October 1996: Section: Entertainment. Available from Lexis-Nexis. Atwood, interviewed at the rear of Toronto’s Premier Dance Theatre, brought along a small slip of paper saved from that night’s Chinese fortune cookie. It read: “Not every question deserves an an-swer.”…Throughout the interview, which centered around her opinions concerning literary festivals, Atwood pointed to the fortune message sitting on the table whenever she didn’t have an answer or chose to evade questions about what she’s going to write about next or whether she is finished with the character from her latest book. (522 w).

  1814. PATE, Nancy. “Princess Prunella: Playful Prose for Pint-Size Readers.” Sacramento Bee 3 January 1996: Section: Scene: D9. On the origins of her new book. Includes Atwood’s comment that she doubted she would pen another picture book any time soon. “I never predict the future in regard to my own writing, but I don’t think it’s really my métier. I mean really, what if that’s what you’re remembered for? Edward Lear painted wonderful pictures of parrots, but he’s not remembered for parrot paintings but for his verse.” (1027 w).

  1815. PEPINSTER, Catherine. “The Writer’s Tale: How a Story Chose an Author and Wowed the Critics.” The Independent 20 September 1996: Section: News: 9. “In an exclusive interview, Atwood questioned the feminist label. She also talked about the precariousness of existence, temptresses and friends, why children should read Shakespeare and how she was ‘chosen’ to write Alias Grace.” (808 w).

  1816. SCHULTZ, Susy. “Atwood’s Alias: She’s Convincing as Always as Historical Writer.” Chicago Sun-Times 22 December 1996: Section: SHO: 4. (1072 w).

  1817. WONG, Jan. “An Audience with ‘a Queen.’” Globe and Mail 7 September 1996: A6. Atwood admits she can’t spell. “When I announced to my mother in high school I was going to be a writer, my mother said, ‘You’d better learn to spell.’ I said, ‘Others will do that for me,” and they have. In the interview, Atwood, at 5 feet 3.5 inches, comments: “I used to be 5-4 but I’m shrinking.”

  Scholarly Resources

  1818. ARIAS-BEAUTELL, Eva. “Displacements, Self-Mockery, and Carnival in the Canadian Postmodern.” World Literature (Spring 1996): 316-320.

  1819. ATROPS, Lorene A. “The Evil Personality of Zenia in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” MA thesis. University of Alaska, 1996. 93 pp. “In People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck defines evil personalities as individuals who are inherently different from other human beings, based upon the consistent destructiveness of their behaviors in huma
n relationships. These intentional, destructive behaviors occur without any external cause or provocation. Peck’s descriptions match the American Psychiatric Association’s definitions of the antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders and apply to Zenia in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride….An analysis of Tony, Charis, and Roz identifies them as personalities who are not evil and who are primarily vulnerable to Zenia because of their misplaced trust in her.” (Author). For more see MAI 34.06 (December 1996): 2167.

  1820. BACCOLINI, Raffaella. “Journeying through the Dystopian Genre: Memory and Imagination in Burdekin, Orwell, Atwood, and Piercy.” Viaggi in Utopia. Ed. Raf-faella Baccolini, Vita Fortunati, and Nadia Minerva. Ravenna [Italy]: Longo, 1996. 347-357. Presented at a conference held 25-27 March 1993, Rimini, Italy.

  1821. BARZILAI, Shuli. “Atwood’s Female Quest-Romance: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Surfacing.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hen-gen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 161-166.

  1822. ______. “The Rhetoric of Ambivalence in Margaret Atwood’s Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature.” Precarious Present / Promising Future? Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature. Ed. Danielle Schaub, Janice Kulyk Keefer, and Richard E. Sherwin. Jerusalem, Israel: Magnes, 1996. 1-9.

  1823. BELLIS, Miriam Hamilton. “Making and Unmaking the Self in the Novels of Fay Weldon, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison.” PhD thesis. University of Miami, 1996. 275 pp. “Western thought has traditionally associated woman with body and man with mind. Weldon, Atwood, and Morrison offer in their novels a critique of this association of woman with physicality and address the complex relationship between the female body and subjectivity. They focus on violence directed toward that body, especially as represented in eating disorders, reproductive technologies, and ‘cosmetic (re)construction’ (e.g., hair dyeing and styling, makeup, elective plastic surgery). These forms of violence are used to contain and control the body, which is defined as a place of cultural unruliness and disorder. In addition to focusing on the violence others impose on female bodies that threatens the women’s subjectivity, I also examine the violence that women practice, or cause to be practiced, on their own bodies and on those of other women when their subjectivity is threatened or denied.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 57.12 (June 1997): 5143.