Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  2105. SADOWSKI, Marianne. “The Dystopian Novel: A Theory of Mass Culture.” PhD thesis. University of Connecticut, 1997. 268 pp. Includes The Handmaid’s Tale. For more see DAI-A 58.08 (February 1998): 3123.

  2107. SHUGART, Helene A. “Counterhegemonic Acts: Appropriation as a Feminist Rhetorical Strategy.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 83.2 (May 1997): 210-229. Shugart explores the rhetorical strategy of feminist appropriation in order to assess its function as a counter-hegemonic tactic. Two instances of feminist rhetorical appropriation are analyzed: the Australian film Shame, as an appropriation of the classical Western, Shane, and Margaret Atwood’s poems “Orpheus” and “Eury-dice,” as a collective appropriation of the classical Greek myth.

  2108. SHUPING, Li. “The Possibility of Breaking the Circle: An Analysis of Three Female Characters in The Edible Woman.” PhD thesis. Lanzhou University, 1997. Text in English with some Chinese.

  2109. SINCLAIR, Gail Ann D. “Rising to the Surface: Suicide as Narrative Strategy in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction.” PhD thesis. University of South Florida, 1997. Includes analysis of Atwood’s Surfacing, which provides a protagonist who escapes society, takes an atavistic psychological journey towards selfhood, and reemerges with resolve to move away from deadly response to personally confining prerogatives by taking charge of her life in a more proactive way. For more see DAI-A 58.11 (May 1998): 4266.

  2110. SINHA, Krishna Kant. “Women in the World of Margaret Atwood and Kamala Markandaya: A Comparative Study.” MA thesis. Ranchi University, 1997.

  2111. SIZEMORE, Christine W. “Negotiating Between Ideologies: The Search for Identity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 25.3-4 (Fall 1997): 68-82. Explores the way two young girls negotiate their search for identity in two novels that speak to the long arm of British colonial ideology, simultaneously across racial and ethnic boundaries.

  2112. STURGESS, Charlotte. “Manipulating Clichés: Margaret Atwood’s Romance Narrative ‘Bluebeard’s Egg.’” GRAAT Publication des Groupes de Recherches An-glo-Américaines de l’Université François Rabelais de Tours 16 (1997): 143-148.

  2113. SUÁREZ LAFUENTE, M. S. “Intertextualidad americana contemporánea del-cuento ‘El Novio Bandido.’” Letras en el Espejo: Ensayos de literatura Americana comparada. Ed. María José Alvarez Maurin, Manuel Broncano, and José Luis Chamosa. León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1997. 199-205. Includes discussion in Spanish of Lady Oracle.

  2114. SUÁREZ LAFUENTE, M. S., and Urbano Viñuela ANGULO. “La ficción de la ficción.” Letras en el Espejo, II: Ensayos de literatura Americana comparada. Ed. María José Alvarez Maurin, Manuel Broncano, and José Luis Chamosa. León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1997. 129-134. Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom and Atwood’s The Robber Bride.

  2115. SUNAINI, Singh. The Novels of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai: A Comparative Study. New Delhi: Creative, 1997.

  2116. TELEKY, Richard. Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1997. 58-60. In one essay, “Without Words: Hungarians in North American Fiction,” Teleky is particularly biting on the subject of a Margaret Atwood story, “Wilderness Tips,” in which a main character is a sinister Hungarian immigrant.

  2117. TEXTER, Douglas Walter. “Kissing the Shiny, Shiny Boot in Oceania and Gilead: George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as Sadomasochistic Discourse.” MA thesis. Villanova University, 1997. 156 pp.

  2118. THOMPSON, Lee Briscoe. Scarlet Letters: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. (Canadian Fiction Studies).

  2119. VAISHALI, K. S. Prisoning Rhythms: A Study of Margaret Atwood’s Poetry. Bangalore: Focus Press, ©1997.

  2120. VAN VUREN, Dalene. “The Seduction of Genre: A Study of Organic Narrative Techniques in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” Thesis (Doctor Litterarum). University of Pretoria, 1997. 375 pp.

  2121. VANDERSLICE, Stephanie M. “Thin Air.” PhD thesis. University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997. 231 pp. Thin Air owes a great deal to Cat’s Eye, especially in its treatment of time. For more see DAI-A 58.03 (September 1997): 876.

  2122. VARBLE, Valery. “Tourists and Transients: (Re)Figuring Notions of Travel in Atwood’s Bodily Harm and Varda’s Vagabond.” MA thesis. New Mexico State University, 1997. 95 pp.

  2123. WALKER, Cheryl. “In Bluebeard’s Closet: Women Who Write with the Wolves.” Literature Interpretation Theory 7.1 (1997): 13-25. “The use of the tale of Bluebeard by certain women writers, including Rose Terry Cooke, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. These are women who would not themselves identify with either the innocent girl or the murdered wife of the myth; as they tell it, it may not be just a story about women’s victimization but rather a story of confronting the dark side, or the dark Other of women’s dreams.” (Journal).

  2124. WALL, Kathleen. “Representing the Other Body: Frame Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Giving Birth’ and Alice Munro’s ‘Meneseteung.’” Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 74-90. Both stories feature unique representations of the female body. An analysis of both works would show the authors’ efforts to de-romanticize that body. The interaction between the frame and the framed body is designed to attract the reader’s attention to the margin and the marginal.

  2125. WEAVER, Rosalie Mary. “Innovation within the Modern Short Story through the Interaction of Gender, Nationality, and Genre: Margaret Atwood’s Wilderness Tips and Alice Munro’s Open Secrets.” PhD thesis. University of Manitoba, 1997. 273 pp. “Through its review of the evolution of the short story and its application of feminist, postmodernist, Reader-response theory, and New Historicism to the recent short-story collections of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, this thesis asserts that both late twentieth-century writers are innovators within the short-story genre. Short-story critics’ continuous disagreement over definition due to the hybrid nature of the short story is seen as analogous to Canadian women writers’ ongoing concerns with issues of identity related specifically to gender and nationality. In Wilderness Tips and Open Secrets, Atwood’s and Munro’s problematization of gender and national identity correlates with their choice of genre. In their hands, the ensuing interaction of gender, nationality, and genre becomes a transformative force for innovation within the modern short story.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 58.11 (May 1998): 4276.

  2126. WECZERKA, Margrit. “‘All of It Is a Reconstruction’: Geschichte und Umgang mit Erinnerung in Margaret Atwoods Romanen The Handmaid’s Tale und The Robber Bride.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 30.2 (1997): 119-133.

  2127. WEHMEYER, Paula J. “Universality and the Self-Discovery Narrative: Three Works by Contemporary Writers.” MA thesis. South Dakota State University, 1997. 89 pp. Cat’s Eye plus Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls & Women and Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

  2128. WEINER, Deborah. “Islands of Possibility: Gendered Workings of Power in the Lives and Texts of Shelley, Alcott, Woolf, Rhys, Laurie Anderson, Carter and At-wood.” PhD thesis. University of Rochester, 1997. 357 pp. An investigation of the forces that have “enabled, facilitated, impeded, or blocked the work of [these] writers.” Discusses Cat’s Eye and several poems. For more see DAI-A 58.09 (March 1998): 3520.

  2129. WHEELER, Kathleen. A Critical Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. Includes short profile of Atwood, 267-271.

  2130. WILKINS, Peter Duncan. “Finite Nations, Finite Selves: The Failure of Apocalypse in North American Fiction.” PhD thesis. University of California, Irvine, 1997. Includes Atwood’s Surfacing which deals with the external threat to Canada represented by the United States. For more see DAI-A 58.08 (February 1998): 3138.

  2131. WÖRRLEIN, Andrea. “‘The Female Body—It’s a Hot Topic’: Weibliche Korper-erfahrung in Margaret Atwoods Romanen The Edible Woman und Bodily Harm.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 45.2 (19
97): 129-147.

  2132. YAN, Qigang. “A Comparative Study of Contemporary Canadian and Chinese Women Writers.” PhD thesis. University of Alberta, 1997. 241 pp. Canadians include Atwood, Gallant, Kogawa, and Munro. For more see DAI-A 58.09 (March 1998): 3516.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  2133. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996. Also published by Blooms-bury in the United Kingdom and by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in the United States.

  Alternative Law Journal 22.6 (December 1997): 315. By K.O.

  Americas 49.6 (November-December 1997): 61-62. By Barbara MUJIKA. (1204 w).

  Buffalo News 19 January 1997 Secondary Book Reviews: 8F. By Janet KAYE. (806 w).

  Canadian Forum 75.856 (January 1997): 39-42. By Elspeth CAMERON.

  Capital Times [Madison, WI] 25 April 1997 Section: Editorial: 17A. By Anita WEIER. (560 w).

  Chicago Tribune 19 January 1997 Section Books: 1. By Maureen McLANE. (1829 w). (Compares Alias Grace with Anita Shreve’s The Weight of Water.)

  Christian Science Monitor 89.60 21 February 1997: 14. By Yvonne ZIPP.

  Daily Yomiuri 23 March 1997: 15. By Linda Ghan. (817 w).

  Denver Post 5 January 1997 Section: Asection: G12. By Cynthia PASQUALE. (725 w).

  Fiddlehead 191 (Spring 1997): 114-119. By Elizabeth E. ROSE. (2216 w).

  Morning Call [Allentown, PA] 5 January 1997 Section: Arts and Travel: F1. By Nicholas BASBANES. (998 w).

  MPLS [St. Paul, MN] 25.3 (March 1997): 34. By William SWANSON. (98 w).

  MS 7.4 (January 1997): 79. By Victoria BROWNWORTH.

  National Review 49.2 (10 February 1997): 58. By Mitt BEAUCHESNE. (253 w).

  New Straits Times [Malaysia] 26 November 1997 Section: Literary: 11. By Wong Ming YOOK. (1338 w).

  New York Law Journal 18 March 1997 Section: Lawyer’s Bookshelf: 2. By Alan MASS. (1373 w).

  New Yorker 72.44 (27 January 1997): 76. ANON.

  Orange County Register 19 January 1997 Section: Show: F36. By Rebecca ALLEN. (905 w).

  Partisan Review 64.1 (Winter 1997): 37-49. By Millicent BELL. (Group review).

  People Weekly 47.3 (27 January 1997): 34. By Kim HUBBARD. (265 w).

  Roanoke Times & World News 16 March 1997 Section Books: 4. By Margaret GRAYSON. (358 w).

  School Library Journal 43.6 (June 1997): 151. By S. H. WOODCOCK.

  Seattle Times 5 January 1997 Section Books: M2. By Melinda BARGREEN. (812 w).

  Sunday Gazette Mail [Charleston, SC] 19 January 1997 Section: News: 2E. By Arline THOM. (695 w).

  US Catholic 62.5 (May 1997): 46-49. By Patrick McCORMICK. (2192 w). (Comparative review).

  Waikato Times [Hamilton] 4 October 1997 Section: Features: Books: 7. By Karin WARNAR. (375 w).

  Western American Literature 32.2 (1997): 175. By Dana WILLIAMS.

  Women’s Review of Books 14.7 (April 1997): 1, 3. By Nina Auerbach. (1472 w).

  The World and I 12 (February 1997): 262. By Roberta RUBENSTEIN.

  World Literature Today 71.3 (Summer 1997): 587. By Mona KNAPP. (603 w).

  2134. Alias Grace [Paperback]. London: Virago, 1997.

  Independent [London] 31 August 1997 Section: Books: 26. By Jenny TURNER. (149 w).

  Irish Times 16 August 1997 Section: Weekend: Paperback choice: 66. By Eileen BATTERSBY. (169 w).

  Sunday Times 31 August 1997 Section: Features. By Phil BAKER. (249 w).

  The Times 30 August 1997 Section: Features. Available from Lexis-Nexis.

  2135. Alias Grace [Sound recording]. New York: Bantam-Books Audio, 1996. 4 cassettes. Abridged. Read by Elizabeth McGovern.

  Austin American-Statesman 13 April 1997 Section: Special: D6. By Joe STAFFORD. (428 w). (Group review).

  Booklist 93.21 (July 1997): 1830. By Scott WHITNEY. (Comparative review).

  Chatelaine 70.7 (July 1997): 12. By Gina MALLET.

  Dallas Morning News 12 January 1997: Section: Today: 2F. By David TARRANT.

  2136. Alias Grace [Sound recording]. London: HarperCollins, 1997. Read by Diana Quick. 2 tapes, 3 hours.

  Irish Times 30 August 1997 Section: Weekend: Audiobooks: 76. By Arminta WALLACE. (Group review).

  2137. Cat’s Eye. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1996.

  Booklist 93.9-10 (1-15 January 1997): 882. By Stephanie ZVIRIN.

  2138. Deux sollicitudes: Entretiens. Trois-Pistoles [QU]: Editions Trois-Pistoles, 1996.

  Nuit-blanche 68 (Autumn 1997): 7-8. By Renaud LONGCHAMPS.

  2139. The Edible Woman. New York: Bantam, 1996.

  British Medical Journal 315.7123 (20-27 December 1997): 1714. By Brian HAYNES. (34 w).

  2140. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1970.

  Malahat Review 32.1-2 (1997): 35-44. Group review. Reprint of original published in Malahat Review 5.2 (1970).

  2141. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1997.

  Globe and Mail 12 December 1997: D18. By Fraser SUTHERLAND.

  Toronto Sun 16 November 1997 Section: Comment/Books: C10. ANON. (238 w).

  2142. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. 2 vols. Toronto: Exile, 1993-1994.

  Canadian Literature 152-153 (Spring-Summer 1997): 244-247. By Diane STILES. (1988 w). (Comparative review).

  2143. Power Politics: Poems. Concord [ON]: Anansi, 1996.

  Edmonton Journal 1 June 1997: C6. By Norm SACUTA. (799 w). (Compared to Pablo Neruda’s Ceremonial Songs.)

  Vancouver Sun 1 March 1997: C8. By Susan MUSGRAVE. (943 w). (Compared to Al Purdy’s Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets.)

  2144. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. Toronto: Key Porter, 1995.

  Canadian Children’s Literature 23.4 (1997): 81-83. By Jim GELLERT.

  Vancouver Sun 13 December 1997 Section: SatRev: K5. By Brenna TURVEY. (411 w).

  2145. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993.

  Seventeen 56.9 (September 1997): 264, 202. By Menina BOYLE.

  2146. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

  Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 111-113. By Sherrill GRACE.

  2147. Wilderness Tips. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991. Also published London: Bloomsbury; New York: Talese/Doubleday.

  Toronto Sun 20 April 1997 Section: Comment/Books: C13. By Liz LANGLEY and Heather MALLICK. (636 w).

  ~ 1998 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  2148. Alias Grace. Amsterdam: Ooievaar, 1998. Dutch translation by Gerda Baardman and Tjadine Stheeman.

  2149. Alias Grace. Barcelona [Spain]: Ediciones B, 1998. Spanish translation by María Antonia Menini.

  2150. Alias Grace. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1998. Norwegian translation by Inger Gjelsvik.

  2151. Alias Grace. Zagreb: Fidas, 1998. Croatian translation by Nedeljka and Janko Paravic.

  2152. Alias Grace: Roman. Munich: BTB, 1998. German translation by Brigitte Walitzek.

  2153. “Animal Victims.” The Wild Animal Story. Ed. Ralph H. Lutts. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998. 215-224. Reprinted from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, ©1972.

  2154. Bie ming Geleisi Alias Grace. [Computer file]. Nanjing: Yi lin chu ban she, 1998. Electronic reproduction.

  2155. “Blackie in Antarctica.” Ontario Review 48 (1998): 5-6. Poem.

  2156. “Bluebeard’s Egg.” The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women. Selected by Denise Chong. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1998. 211-243. Reprinted from Bluebeard’s Egg.

  2157. Bluebeard’s Egg. New York: Anchor Books, 1998. Contents: “Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother,” “Hurricane Hazel,” “Loulou, or, The Domestic Life of the Language,” “Uglypuss,” “Betty,” “Bluebeard’s Egg,” “Spring Song of the Frogs,” “Scarlet Ibis,” “The Salt Garden,” “The Sin Eater,” “The Sunrise,” and “Unearthing Suite.” Reprint of 1983 McClelland and Stewart edition.

  2158. Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories. Bath: Chivers, 1998. Large print edition.

  2159. Bodily Harm. Toronto: McCl
elland and Stewart; New York: Doubleday 1998 ©1981.

  2160. Captive. Paris: Laffont, 1998. French translation of Alias Grace by Michèle Alba-ret-Maatsch.

  2161. Cat’s Eye. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

  2162. Cat’s Eye. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998. Paperback reissue of the 1997 Random House cloth edition.

  2163. Chicas bailerinas. Barcelona: Editorial Lumen, 1998. Spanish translation of Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Víctor Pozanco. Contents: “El marciano,” “Betty,” “Polaridades,” “Translúcida,” “La tumba del famoso poeta,” “Joyería capilar,” “Cuando sucede,” “Historia de un viaje,” “El resplandeciente quetzal,” “Aprendi-zaje,” “Vidas de poetas,” “Chicas bailerinas,” “La comepecados,” “Dar a luz.”

  2164. “A Christmas Lorac.” The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times. Ed. by Albert Manguel. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1998. 7-13. In this story intended for children, with “profound apologies to Charles Dickens,” Atwood offers a fable about Ebenezer Scrooge in Tory Ontario. Reprinted from Globe and Mail 23 December 1995: C1, C15.

  2165. The Circle Game. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1998. Reprint of Anansi edition, ©1978. With an introduction by Sherrill Grace. Atwood’s first collection of poetry, winner of the 1966 Governor General’s Award.

  2166. “Cricket.” Ontario Review 49 (1998): 18-19. Poem.

  2167. Criminosa ou Inocente? Lisbon: Livros do Brasil, 1998. Portuguese translation of Alias Grace by Clarisse Tavares.

  2168. “Crosstalk.” Canadian Forum 77.869 (1998): 18-21. Excerpt from Two Solicitudes. Margaret Atwood in conversation with Victor-Levy Beaulieu on tyranny, taboos, and making movies.

  2169. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998 ©1977. Includes “The War in the Bathroom,” “The Man from Mars,” “Polarities,” “Under Glass,” “The Grave of the Famous Poet,” “Rape Fantasies,” “Hair Jewellery,” “When It Happens,” “A Travel Piece,” “The Resplendent Quetzal,” “Training,” “Lives of the Poets,” “Dancing Girls,” “Giving Birth.”

  2170. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. New York: Anchor Books, 1998 ©1977. Short stories. The US edition substitutes “Betty” and “The Sin Eater,” both of which were later published in the Canadian edition of Bluebeard’s Egg (1983), for “The War in the Bathroom” and “Rape Fantasies.”