Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  2386. RAVICHANDRA, C. P. “Memories of Resistence [sic]: Reading Cat’s Eye.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann How-ells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [56]-63.

  2387. REICHENBACHER, Helmut. “Reading Hidden Layers: A Genetic Analysis of the Drafts of Margaret Atwood’s Novels The Edible Woman and Bodily Harm. PhD thesis. University of Toronto. 1998. 351 pp. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (2000) and in .pdf format: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0008/NQ41492.pdf. “Margaret Atwood’s creative technique as a novelist is the subject of this thesis, which considers two of her novels, The Edible Woman (1969) and Bodily Harm (1981). The dissertation investigates Atwood’s process of writing, from the earliest extant drafts of the novels to the final, published product. Genetic criticism, the methodology applied in analysing the manuscript material, studies textual versions without privileging a ‘best’ or definitive version.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 60.10 (April 2000): 3661.

  2388. ROGERSON, Margaret. “Reading the Patchworks in Alias Grace.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 33.1 (1998): 5-22. A reading of the novel situating it within the cultural and literary history of patchwork.

  2389. ROTH, Verena Bühler. Wilderness and the Natural Environment: Margaret At-wood’s Recycling of a Canadian Theme. Tübingen; Basel: Francke Verlag, 1998. Originally a doctoral dissertation at the University of Zürich.

  2390. SARBADHIKARY, Krishna. “Signifying Authority: The Short Stories of Margaret Atwood and Audrey Thomas.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [82]-98.

  2391. SCHAUB, Danielle. “‘I Am a Place’: Internalised Landscape and Female Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Mapping Canadian Cultural Space: Essays on Canadian Literature. Ed. Danielle Schaub. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1998. 83-103.

  2392. SMITH, Rowland. “Expected and Inverted Response: Righteousness and Fallibility in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power Game. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix and Jacques Leclaire. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. 117-125.

  2393. SOLECKI, Sam, ed. Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998. Includes letters from McClelland to Atwood, in one of which he apologizes to Atwood for mislaying the manuscript to The Edible Woman for two years.

  2394. SPENCE, Jonathan D. “Margaret Atwood and the Edges of History.” American Historical Review 193.5 (1998): 1522-1525. Response to Atwood’s Bronfman Lecture on Canadian historical fiction.

  2395. SPRIET, Pierre. “L’homme de Lady Oracle.” Textes publiés sur Margaret At-wood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 59-69. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 9 (1980): 1998. 59-69. Reprinted from Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 9 (1980): 63-73.

  2396. STABLEFORD, Brian. Slaves of the Death Spider: Essays on Fantastic Literature. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1998. See especially Chapter 2, “Is There No Balm in Gilead? The Woeful Prophesies of The Handmaid’s Tale (followed by a letter of comment by Gwyneth Jones),” 17-24.

  2397. STAELS, Hilde. “The Eclipse of ‘the Other Voice’: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (1998): 203-206.

  2398. STAPLES, Joseph Perry. “‘In the Hands of Nature’: Remaking the Self in Novels by Marilynne Robinson, Margaret Atwood, and Linda Hogen.” MA thesis. Utah State University, 1998. 100 pp. Surfacing is included in study which analyzes how contemporary women writers use landscape in their fiction. For more see MAI 37.01 (February 1999): 61.

  2399. STILLMAN, Peter G. “Public and Private in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Bodily Harm.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (1998): 207-215.

  2400. STURGESS, Charlotte. “The Female Body as Representation and Performance in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret At-wood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 69-76.

  2401. ______. “Female Dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale: The Body, The Word and Transgressive Words.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 71-80.

  2402. ______. “Text and Territory in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Unearthing Suite.’” Textes publiés sur Margaret Atwood dans Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies (1975-1997). [Ed.] Jean-Michel Lacroix. Talence [France]: Association française d’études canadiennes (A.F.E.C.), 1998. 111-117 Reprinted from Études canadi-ennes / Canadian Studies 31 (1991): 81-87.

  2403. SULLIVAN, Rosemary. “Alias Margaret: The Radcliffe Years.” Saturday Night 113.5 (1998): 54-59. Excerpt from The Red Shoes.

  2404. ______. The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out. Toronto: Harper-FlamingoCanada; New York: HarperCollins World; London: Hi Marketing, 1998.

  2405. ______. “The Writer Bride.” Saturday Night 113.6 (1998): 56-62. Excerpt from The Red Shoes.

  2406. TUHKUNEN-COUZIC, Taïna. “Stratégies de scrabbleuse dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 149-155.

  2407. TURCOTTE, Gerry. “Response: Venturing into Undiscoverable Countries: Reading Ondaatje, Malouf, Atwood and Jia in an Asia-Pacific Context.” Australian– Canadian Studies: A Journal for the Humanities & Social Sciences 15, 16.2, 1 (1997-1998): 65-72.

  2408. TYLER, Lisa. “‘I Just Don’t Understand It’: Teaching Margaret Atwood’s ‘Rape Fantasies.’” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 25 (February 1998): 51-57.

  2409. VALENTINE, Susan Elizabeth. “The Protagonist’s Response to Power and Language in the Dystopian Novel.” MA thesis. McMaster University, 1998. 85 pp. The Handmaid’s Tale studied.

  2410. VAN VUREN, Dalene. “The Seduction of Genre: A Study of Organic Narrative Techniques in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” PhD thesis. University of Pretoria, South Africa, 1998. “This thesis is a study of the organic narrative techniques used by Atwood to imbue her novels with a certain dynamism and originality. The

  study focuses on Atwood’s manipulation of conventional form: on her ‘seduction of genre.’ Atwood employs traditional forms such as the thriller, the Gothic novel and science fiction which she then subverts to break their prescriptive moulds of stasis. Traditionally male dominated genres such as the thriller, science fiction or history are presented by Atwood from a female perspective which represents the unconscious. Atwood does not suggest that female perspectives are superior, but that a balance be achieved between the masculine conscious and feminine unconscious components of the self so that individuation results.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 60.01 (July 1999): 137.

  2411. VENTURA, Héliane. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale. Paris: Éd. Messene, 1998. Texts in English and French.

  2412. VEVAINA, Coomi S. “Quilting Selves: Interpreting Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Margaret Atwood: The Shape Shifter. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Coral Ann Howells. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. [64]-74.

  2413. ______. “So It Has Been Done: So It Shall Be Done—Archetypal Patterns in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 135-144.

  2414. VEVAINA, Coomi S., and Coral Ann HOWELLS, eds. Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998. Each article in this book has been indexed in this section.

  2415. VINET, Dominique. “‘Pen Is Envy’ in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lectures d’une oeuvre: The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood. [Ed.] Jean-Paul Gabilliet and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions du temps, 1998. 145-160.

  2416. ______. “La systémique du fantasme dans The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret At-wood: The Handmaid’s Tale / Le Conte de la servante: The Power
Game. Ed. Jean-Michel Lacroix and Jacques Leclaire. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998. 147-167.

  2417. WANG, Yiyan. “Language, Time and Introspection: Margaret Atwood and Jia Pingwa.” Australian–Canadian Studies: A Journal for the Humanities & Social Sciences 15, 16.2, 1 (1997-1998): 13-41. Language’s relationship to cultural identity in P’ing-wa and Atwood. [Ed. note: This journal has is a very unusual numbering system—but it is, as far as can be verified, accurate.]

  2418. WHALEN-BRIDGE, John. Political Fiction and the American Self. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Final chapter focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale.

  2419. WILKINS, Peter. “Defense of the Realm: Canada’s Relationship to the United States in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 14 (1998): 205-222.

  2420. WILSON, Sharon R. “Beyond Colonization: The Handmaid’s Tale as a Postmodern and Postcolonial Metafiction.” The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood. Ed. Marta Dvorak. Paris: Ellipses, 1998. 125-130.

  2421. WYATT, Jean. “I Want to Be You: Envy, the Lacanian Double, and Feminist Community in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 17.1 (1998): 37-64. The novel as a tale of envy.

  2422. YORK NOTES. The Handmaid’s Tale. Harlow: Longman, 1998. Study guide.

  2423. ZIMMERMANN, Hannelore. Erscheinungsformen der Macht in den Romanen Margaret Atwoods. [Manifestations of Power in the Novels of Margaret Atwood]. Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, 1998. In German.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  2424. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996.

  Booklist 94.9/10 (1998): 872. By Sue-Ellen BEAUREGARD.

  Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 110-112. By Aritha Van HERK.

  Hudson Review 50.4 (1998): 661-662. By W. H. PRITCHARD.

  2425. Captive. Paris: Laffont, 1998. [Alias Grace]

  Chatelaine (Fr), 39.7 (1998): 20. Nuit Blanche 73 (Winter 1998-99): 10. By Jean-Paul BEAUMIER.

  Spirale 163 (November-December 1998): 17. By Francine BORDELEAU.

  2426. Deux Sollicitudes: Entretiens. Trois-Pistoles, QC: Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 1996.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1 (Winter 1997-98): 503-507. By André LAMONTAGNE.

  2427. Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1997.

  Ottawa Citizen 24 January 1998: J3. By Charlotte GRAY.

  Virginia Quarterly Review 74.2 (Spring 1998): 66. ANON.

  2428. Morning in the Burned House. London: Virago, 1995.

  Prairie Schooner 72.1 (Spring 1998): 183-185. By Dale JACOBS.

  2429. A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Ed. Kathy CHUNG and Sherrill GRACE. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 1997.

  Canadian Children’s Literature 24.3/4 (1998): 158-160. By Elaine OSTRY. Review focuses on Juvenilia Press.

  Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society 21 (Fall-Winter 1998): 16-17. By Janice RIEMAN.

  2430. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

  Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 235.1 (1998): 199-201. By W. PACHE.

  2431. Two Solicitudes: Conversations. By Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998.

  The Gazette (Montreal) 27 June 1998: J5. By Bronwyn CHESTER.

  The Gazette (Montreal) 17 October 1998: J3. By Ian McGILLIS.

  Globe and Mail 11 July 1998: D10. By Ray CONLOGUE.

  Ottawa Citizen 17 May 1998: E4. By David HOMEL.

  Quill & Quire 64.5 (May 1998): 23. By Carolyne A. VAN DER MEER.

  Toronto Star 11 July 1998: K16. By Philip MARCHAND.

  Vancouver Sun 11 July 1998: G5. By Mark HARRIS.

  ~ 1999 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  2432. “3 Moons.” Canada’s Century: An Illustrated History of the People and Events That Shaped Our Identity. Ed. Carl Mollins. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1999. 284. Poem reprinted from Maclean’s, 1969. Book contains several other references to Atwood’s work.

  2433. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. Trade paperback edition.

  2434. Alias Grace. Hamburg: Petersen, 1999. In English.

  2435. Asesinato en la oscuridad. Oviedo [Spain]: KRK, 1999. Spanish translation of stories from Murder in the Dark and other works by Isabel Carrera Suárez.

  2436. “Asparagas.” How to Read a Poem … and Start a Poetry Circle. By Molly Peacock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. 149-151. Reprinted from Morning in the Burned House, ©1995.

  2437. “At First I Was Given Centuries.” Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write about War. Ed. Sayre P. Sheldon. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999. 297-298. Reprinted from Selected Poems, ©1976.

  2438. “Best Utopia: God Is in the Details.” New York Times Magazine 18 April 1999: Section 6: 94. Atwood comments on the utopian society of the Shakers in the 19th century.

  2439. Bluebeard’s Egg. Toronto: Seal Books, 1999.

  2440. Bluebeard’s Egg. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. Trade paperback edition.

  2441. “Bluebeard’s Egg.” The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Don Mills: Oxford UP, 1999. 269-291. Also in The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism. Ed. Maria Tatar. New York: Norton, 1999. 156-178 Reprinted from the short story collection of same name (1983), McClelland and Stewart.

  2442. “A Boat.” Evoluzioni: Poeti Anglophoni e Francofoni Del Canada. Ed. Claudia Gasparini and Marina Zito. Naples: Libreria Dante & Descartes Universitaria, 1999. 118.

  2443. Bodily Harm. Toronto: Seal Books, 1999.

  2444. Captive. Paris: Laffont, 1999 ©1998. French translation of Alias Grace by Michèle Albaret-Maatsch. Paperback.

  2445. Cat’s Eye. Toronto: Seal Books, 1999 ©1988.

  2446. Cat’s Eye. [Sound recording]. Read by Doreen Odling. Vancouver, BC: Crane Resource Centre, 1999. 12 tape reels.

  2447. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. Toronto: Seal Books, 1999.

  2448. “Death by Landscape.” The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories since 1970. Ed. Lex Williford and Michael Martone. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1999. 31-45.

  2449. “Der Norden ist in unserem Kopf. Immer.” Kanadas Osten. Hamburg: Merian, 1999. 30-46.

  2450. Die Giftmischer: Horror-Trips Und Happy-Ends. Düsseldorf: Claassen, 1999. German translation of Murder in the Dark by Anna Kamp.

  2451. Die Unmöglichkeit Der Nähe. Düsseldorf: Claassen, 1999. German translation of Life Before Man by Werner Waldhoff.

  2452. Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965-1995. London: Virago, 1999.

  2453. The Edible Woman. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. Trade paperback edition.

  2454. “El Look Grunge / The Grunge Look.” Tameme: New Writing from North America / Nueva Literatura de Norteamérica. Ed. C. M. Mayo. Los Altos, CA: Tameme, 1999. 70-87. Article appears both in Spanish and English. Reprinted from Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology, ©1994.

  2455. El pene ha-mayim. [Tel Aviv]: Kineret, 1999. Hebrew translation of Surfacing by Tamar Shtainits.

  2456. “An Encyclopedia of Lost Practices: The Saturday Night Date.” New York Times 6 December 1999: Section 6: 148. Dating in the 1950s explained. (426 w).

  2457. “Euridyce.” Evoluzioni: Poeti Anglophoni e Francofoni Del Canada. Ed. Claudia Gasparini and Marina Zito. Naples: Libreria Dante & Descartes Universitaria, 1999. 128.

  2458. “[Excerpt].” Architectural Digest 56.4 (1999): 62. In the article entitled “Voices in the Twentieth Century: Writers on Subjects Close to Home,” authors who had written previously for this publication are excerpted. Atwood’s is from “Summers on Canada’s Rideau Canal.” Architectural Digest June 1988: 84, 88, 90-91.

  2459. “[Excerpt].” Baltimore Sun 3 November 1999: Section: Today: 8E. Excerpt from Princess Prunella and the Purple P
eanut. (816 w).

  2460. “[Excerpt].” Edmonton Journal 8 August 1999: B1. An excerpt from stories published by Juvenilia Press: “The little boy went quietly to his room. He shut the door softly and moved with muffled steps across the thick grey carpet to his bed. He climbed up on the bed and with a strangly [sic] concentrated energy pounded the side of his head silently, furiously against the wooded bed-post. His face was set in the determination of habitual action. He could feel the pain increase and spread: it was a relief, a release.” From The Quiet Game by Atwood as a teenager.

  2461. “[Excerpt].” Index on Censorship 28.2 (1999): 157. From The Handmaid’s Tale.

  2462. “Foreword.” Flare Magazine Presents Made in Canada; Photographs by Bryan Adams. Toronto: Key Porter, 1999. s.p. Black-and-white photographs of 89 Canadian women including Atwood taken by rock star Adams in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Volume unpaged.

  2463. “Forgotten Treasures.” Los Angeles Times 26 December 1999: Section: Book Review: 2. In a series in which writers are asked to share a “neglected classic,” a book they love but which, for one reason or another has yet to find the readers it deserves, Atwood writes about Doctor Glas, a “short, astonishing novel by Hjal-mar Soderberg, which was first published in Sweden in 1905 and caused a scandal because of its handling of sex and death, not to mention abortion and euthanasia.”

  2464. “Freeforall.” Northern Suns. Ed. David G. Harwell and Glenn Grant. New York: Tor Books, 1999. 17-24. In this sci-fi collection, Atwood foresees another reactionary society not too far removed from that of The Handmaid’s Tale—one in which rampant sexual disease leads to arranged matings and contract marriages brokered by post-feminist “house-mothers.” “Reprinted from the Toronto Star and later in Tesseracts (1987. Ed. Douglas Barbour).”

  2465. “Genesis of The Handmaid’s Tale and Role of Historical Notes.” The Handmaid’s Tale, Roman Protéen. Textes réunis by Jean-Michel Lacroix, Jacques Leclaire, and Jack Warwick. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications de l’Université de Rouen, 1999. 7-14. Followed by a Roundtable, 15-24.