Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  1874. MacFARLANE, Susan Elizabeth Wilson. “Checking the Mainstream: The Architectonics of Canadian Literary Criticism.” PhD thesis. University of Victoria, 1996. 323 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1997). Includes analysis of Atwood’s influence, especially of Survival on Canadian literary criticism. For more see DAI-A 58.05 (November 1997): 1716.

  1875. MAHONEY, Elisabeth. “Writing So to Speak: The Feminist Dystopia.” Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham. London: Longman, 1996. 29-40. The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1876. MALAK, Amin. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the Dystopian Tradition.” A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism. [Ed.] M. Keith Booker. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1996. 419-425. Reprinted from Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16.

  1877. MANLEY, Kathleen E. B. “Atwood’s Reconstruction of Folktales: The Handmaid’s Tale and ‘Bluebeard’s Egg.’” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 135-139.

  1878. MANUEL, Katrina. “On the Periphery: The Female Marginalized in Five Post-Colonial Novels.” MA thesis. Memorial University, 1996. 114 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1999) and as pdf file: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ36150.pdf. “Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye, Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain and In Custody, Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea show the plight of marginalized women in addition to providing rich texts which address a number of pertinent and pressing issues.” (Author). For more see MAI 37.04 (August 1999): 1082.

  1879. MASON, Carol Ann. “Fundamental Opposition: Feminism, Narrative, and the Abortion Debate (Margaret Atwood, Charles Colson, Ellen Vaughn, Walter Kirn, Dorothy Allison, Arthur Miller, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Species, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ET).” PhD thesis. University of Minnesota, 1996. 230 pp. Focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale. For more see DAI-A 57.04 (October 1996): 1619.

  1880. McCOMBS, Judith. “Cat’s Eye as a Reenvisioned Portrait of the Artist: A Visual, Canadian Studies, and Feminist Approach.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 174-179.

  1881. McMAHON, Daniel Jordan. “Maps of Myth-Reading: Utopias as Revolutionary Mythologies.” PhD thesis. University of Maryland, 1996. 268 pp. “In the introductory chapter I define the vexed terms ‘utopia,’ ‘myth,’ and ‘mythology’ and establish the theoretical basis of my work. I examine theories of utopia and theories of mythology by such thinkers as Paul Ricoeur, Northrop Frye, Joseph Campbell, and Karl Mannheim. Succeeding chapters provide readings of utopias chosen for their explicit confrontation with a dominant mythology.” (Author). Includes a chapter on The Handmaid’s Tale. For more see DAI-A 57.10 (April 1997): 4381.

  1882. MELLEY, Timothy. “‘Stalked by Love’: Female Paranoia and the Stalker Novel.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 8.2 (1996): 68-100. References The Edible Woman and Bodily Harm.

  1883. MERIVALE, Patricia. “‘Hypocrite Lecteuse! Ma Semblable! Ma Soeur!’ on Teaching Murder in the Dark.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 99-106.

  1884. MICHAEL, Magali Cornier. Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. Includes discussion of The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1885. MILLER, Kathy. “Cultural Geography: Nomadism, Friendship, and War in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada 6 (1996): 71-80.

  1886. MORRIS, Diana Marlene. “(Re)inscribing the Feminine: Gender and Sociopolitical Marginalization in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison.” PhD thesis. Ohio State University, 1996. 288 pp. “The conceptual framework for this project began to take shape as feminists began to debate feminism(s): theoretical versus activist perspectives; Anglo-American versus French perspectives; middle-class versus working-class perspectives; women of color versus Anglo-European perspectives; women of the ‘third’ world versus women of the ‘first’; and so forth….Both Morrison and Atwood employ a similar strategy to a different end. Not the least of their concern is the complex way that they represent the effect of political feminization on their male characters, a matter which this study considers in detail. Each writer begins to redefine their ethnic/national group by confronting the effects of socio-political feminization by (1) de-inscribing the female body as the ‘masculine’ subject’s object and (2) re-inscribing the feminine through an existentially-defined female presence. Through this process, both writers constitute a feminine subjective identity that is inseparable from their ethnic-national identity.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 57.05 (November 1996): 2045.

  1887. MYCAK, Sonia. In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996.

  1888. NELSON-BORN, Katherine A. “Trace of a Woman: Narrative Voice and Decen-tered Power in the Fiction of Toni Morrison. Margaret Atwood, and Louise Er-dich.” Literature, Interpretation Theory 7.1 (1996): 1-12. Most especially, The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1889. PADOLSKY, Enoch. “Italian-Canadian Writing and the Ethnic Minority/Majority Binary.” Social Pluralism and Literary History: The Literature of the Italian Emigration. Ed. Francesco Loriggio. Toronto: Guernica, 1996. 248-268. Reference especially to Lady Oracle.

  1890. PAILLOT, Patricia. “Miroirs à deux faces dans The Robber Bride de Margaret Atwood.” Annales du Centre de Recherches sur l’Amérique Anglophone 21 (1996): 175. English summary.

  1891. PALECANDA, Uma Devi Vaneeta K. “Re-Siting Memory: Reading Resistance Through Memorization in Three Margaret Atwood Novels.” PhD thesis. West Virginia University, 1996. In the novels Lady Oracle, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Cat’s Eye, the author locates and names the sites of memory to show how At-wood’s protagonists appropriate them as their loci of resistance. For more see DAI-A 57.12 (June 1997): 5158.

  1892. PARKER, E. “The Politics of Eating: Food and Power in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” PhD thesis. University of Birmingham, 1996. For more see Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 47 (1998): 257.

  1893. PERRY, Susan. A Study Guide to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Bal-larat, Australia: Wizard Books, 1996. 48 pp.

  1894. PYLVAINEN, Tina Tammy. “Dawn of Discovery: Margaret Atwood’s Morning in the Burned House.” MA thesis. Lakehead University, 1996. 198 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (1999) and as .pdf file: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ33435.pdf. Atwood’s latest book of poetry “is a carefully structured exploration of the spiritual dimension of selfhood. The volume is divided into five sections which each serve as ‘stages’ of awareness, and the poetry is ordered in such a way that the sections themselves and the volume as a whole both convey a sense of progressive development.” (Author). For more see MAI 37.03 (June 1999): 763.

  1895. QUENTAL, Cheryl Mary. “Individual Awareness and Natural Consciousness: A Note on Two Novels of Margaret Atwood.” Canadian Literature and Society. Ed. K. S. Ramamurtti. New Delhi: Pencraft, 1996. 141-150. Surfacing and Bodily Harm.

  1896. RAGLON, Rebecca. “Women and the Great Canadian Wilderness: Reconsidering the Wild.” Women’s Studies 25.5 (September 1996): 513-532. Analyzes contributions of Canadian women writers such as Atwood to wilderness theory.

  1897. REGINALD, Robert. Xenograffiti: Essays on Fantastic Literature. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1996. See especially “Margaret Atwood: The Young Woman in Agony” with Mary A. Burgess. 131-134.

  1898. REITINGER, Douglas W. “The Culture of Co
nsumption and Waste.” PhD thesis. University of Nevada, 1996. 237 pp. Discussion of “transformational healing power of food” in works of several authors, including Atwood. For more see DAI-A 57.08 (February 1997): 3485.

  1900. RESTUCCIA, Frances. “Tales of Beauty: Aestheticizing Female Melancholia.” American Imago 53.4 (Winter 1996): 353-384. Women writers who fit the definition of melancholia proposed by Julia Kristeva include Atwood, Anita Brookner, and Margaret Drabble. Their works feature women who face suffering forced on them by social and cultural contexts which they can do nothing to stop.

  1901. ROCARD, Marcienne. “Approche gothique du paysage canadien: ‘Death by Landscape’ de Margaret Atwood.” Caliban 33 (1996): 147-156.

  1902. ROSENBERG, Jerome. “‘Who Is This Woman?’” Approaches to Teaching At-wood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 28-32. Biography.

  1903. SAINT-JACQUES, Bernard. “Identity and Nationalism in Canadian Literature.” Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Zach and Ken L. Goodwin. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffen-burg, 1996. 299-306.

  1904. SHECKELS, Theodore F., Jr. “A Writer for all Theories: Using Atwood’s Works to Teach Critical Theory and Praxis.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 167-173.

  1905. SHINN, Thelma J. Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1996. See especially Chapter 2: “The Word Made Man: Margaret Atwood.” [41]-51. Focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1906. STAMBOVSKY, Phillip. Myth and the Limits of Reason. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1996. Contains commentary on works of Margaret Atwood and three other writers.

  1907. STEIN, Karen. “Margaret Atwood’s Modest Proposal: The Handmaid’s Tale.” Canadian Literature 148 (Spring 1996): 57-73. Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1908. STEWART, Bruce. Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood. Harlow: Longman, 1996. 80 pp.

  1909. TEEUWEN, Ruud. “Dystopia’s Point of No Return: A Team-Taught Utopia Class.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 114-121.

  1910. TEMPLIN, Charlotte. “Can One Read Literature Objectively?” The Practice and Theory of Ethics. Ed. Terry Kent, Marshall Bruce Gentry, and Dean Mary Moore. Indianapolis, IN: University of Indianapolis Press, 1996. 123-140. Treatment of Atwood by book reviewers compared to Erica Jong.

  1911. VanSPANCKEREN, Kathryn. “The Trickster Text: Teaching Atwood’s Works in Creative Writing Classes.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 77-83.

  1912. VEVAINA, Coomi S. Remembering Selves: Alienation and Survival in the Novels of Margaret Atwood and Margaret Lawrence. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1996.

  1913. VITALE, Ronald M. “Memory and the Quest for Self: A Jungian Reading of Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood.” MA thesis. Villanova University, 1996. 79 pp.

  1914. WEINHOUSE-RICHMOND, Linda. “The Politics of Motherhood.” Doris Lessing Newsletter 18.1 (Summer 1996): 3, 10-14. Deals with Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

  1915. WELBY, Sharon Kay. “The Liminal Process of Healing in Three Women’s Novels.” MA thesis. San Diego State University, 1996. 106 pp. Atwood’s Surfacing, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams.

  1916. WILSON, Sharon. “Atwood’s Intertextual and Sexual Politics.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 55-62.

  1917. WILSON, Sharon R., Thomas B. FRIEDMAN, and Shannon HENGEN, eds. Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 215 pp. Individual chapters indexed in this section.

  1918. WORTHINGTON, Kim L. Self as Narrative: Subjectivity and Community in Contemporary Fiction. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996. Includes discussion of Lady Oracle.

  1919. YORK, Lorraine M. “Satire: The No-Woman’s Land of Literary Modes.” Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works. Ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. 43-48.

  1920. ZIMMERMANN, Juta. Metafiktion im anglokanadischen Roman der Gegenwart Trier [Germany]: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1996. Study of Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, and Kristjana Gunnars.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  1921. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996. Also published by Blooms-bury in the UK and by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in the US.

  Arizona Republican 1 December 1996: Section: Arts Plus: E12. By Anne STEPHENSON. (157 w).

  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 10 November 1996: Section: Arts: 10L. By Diane ROBERTS. (1038 w).

  Beaver 76.6 (December-January 1996): 42-48. By Chris RAIBLE.

  Book of the Month Club News Holiday 1996: 2-3. ANON.

  Booklist 93.2 (15 October 1996): 180. By Donna SEAMAN.

  Boston Globe 8 December 1996: Section: Books: N16. By Gail CALDWELL. (1379 w).

  Chatelaine 69.10 (October 1996): 18. By Gina MALLET.

  Chicago Sun-Times 24 November 1996: Section: Show: 15. By Wendy SMITH. (611 w).

  Cincinnati Enquirer 31 December 1996: C04. By Kyrie O’CONNOR. (649 w).

  Commercial Appeal (Memphis) 15 December 1996: Section: Fanfare: 3g. By Stephen DEUSNER. (778 w).

  Daily Mail 14 September 1996: 36. By Val HENNESSY. (1267 ).

  Daily News (New York) 13 November 1996: Section: New York Now: 37. By Sherryl CONNELLY. (507 w).

  Daily Telegraph 21 September 1996: Section: Books: 8. By Maggie GEE. (509 w).

  Dominion (Wellington, NZ) 9 November 1996: Section: Features (Books): 20. By Pauline SWAIN. (424 w).

  Elle 136 (December 1996): 94. By Janice LEE.

  Entertainment Weekly 355 (29 November 1996): 83. By Tom De HAVEN. (276 w).

  Evening Post (Wellington, NZ) 25 October 1996: Section: Features/Books: 5. By Kim WORTHINGTON. (448 w).

  Evening Standard 23 September 1996: 26. (747 w).

  Glamour 94.11 (November 1996): 108. By Sara NELSON.

  Globe and Mail 7 September 1996: C20. By Joan THOMAS.

  Guardian 3 October 1996: Section: Features: T14. By Lindsay DUGUID. (1294 w).

  Herald (Glasgow) 28 September 1996: 15. By Carl MACDOUGALL. (960 w).

  Houston Chronicle 8 December 1996: Section: Zest: 29. By Rich QUACKENBUSH. (989 w).

  Independent 15 September 1996: Section: Books: 31. By Julie MYERSON. (854 w). and 14 September 1996: Section: Books: 5. By Carole ANGIER. (719 w).

  International Herald Tribune 24 December 1996: Section: Feature. By Christopher LEHMANN-HAUPT. (934 w).

  Irish Times 14 September 1996: Section: Weekend: 9 (Supplement). By Eileen BATTERSBY. (1534 w).

  Jerusalem Post 19 December 1996: Section: Books: 6. By Rachel MISKIN. (2454 w).

  Kansas City Star 15 December 1996: Section: Arts: 19. By David WALTON. (782 w). Also published in News & Record (Greensboro, NC): Section: Ideas: F5.

  Library Journal 121.18 (1 November 1996): 106. By Barbara HOFFERT.

  Los Angeles Times 15 December 1996: Section: Book Review: 2. By Richard EDER. (1306 w). Also published in Newsday 15 December 1996: Section: Fanfare: C35.

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 15 December 1996: Section: Cue: 15. By Whitney GOULD. (649 w).

  Nation 263.19 (9 December 1996): 25-27. By Tom LECLAIR. (
1791 w).

  New York 29.47 (2 December 1996): 116-117. By Kim WALTER.

  New York Review of Books 43.20 (19 December 1996): 4. By Hilary MANTEL.

  New York Times 29 December 1996: Section: 7: 6. By Francine PROSE. (1403 w). Also 12 December 1996: Section: C: 19. By Christopher LEHMANN-HAUPT.

  New Statesman 9.423 (4 October 1996): 46-47. By Michele ROBERTS.

  News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) 29 December 1996: G4. By Bruce ALLEN. (799 w).

  Observer 22 September 1996: Section: Observer Review Page: 18. By Maureen FREELY. (1414 w).

  Orlando Sentinel 1 December 1996: Section: Arts and Entertainment: F10. By Nancy PATE. (627 w).

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8 December 1996: Section: Arts and Entertainment: G9. By Geeta KOTHARI. (807 w).

  Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 24 November 1996: Section: Books: 111. By Alicia METCALF-MILLER. (568 w).

  Publishers Weekly 243.41 (7 October 1996): 58. By Sybil S. STEINBERG.

  Record (Bergen) 8 December 1996: Section: Your Time: Y09. By Mary DeCICCO. (609 w).

  Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 December 1996: 28D. By Marie ARANA-WARD. (734 w). Also published in the Tampa Tribune 29 December 1996: Section: Commentary: 5 and the Washington Post 22 December 1996: Section: Book World: X01.

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 22 December 1996: Section: Everyday Magazine: 5C. By Speer MORGAN. (492 w).

  Sacramento Bee 15 December 1996: Section: Encore: 22. By Kyrie O’CONNOR. (867 w). Also published in the Hartford Courant 24 November 1996: Section: Arts: G3.

  Scotland on Sunday 15 September 1996: Section: Spectrum: 13. By Thomas MATTHEWS. (2200 w).

  Scotsman 7 September 1996: 19. By Ali SMITH. (2067 w).

  South China Morning Post 21 December 1996: Section: Books: 8. By Carolyn FORD. (560 w).

  Spectator 277.8774 (14 September 1996): 36. By Anita BROOKNER.

  Star Tribune (Pittsburgh) 8 December 1996: Section: Entertainment: 21F. By David WALTON. (745 w). Also published in The Detroit News 23 November 1996: Section: HomeStyle: D35.