Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  2877. RIGELHOF, T. F. This Is Our Writing. Erin: Porcupine’s Quill, 2000. While At-wood is not profiled directly, Life Before Man is tagged as her best novel, followed by Alias Grace.

  2878. RIGNEY, Barbara Hill. “Alias Atwood: Narrative Games and Gender Politics.” Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 157-165.

  2879. ROJAS, Adena. “Maids in Their-Land: A Study of the Effects of the Cult of True Womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) and Margaret At-wood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1986).” MA thesis. Southwest Texas State University, 2000.

  2880. ROSENTHAL, Caroline. “Canonizing Atwood: Her Impact on Teaching in the US, Canada, and Europe.” Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 41-56.

  2881. ROWLAND, Susan. “Imaginal Bodies and Feminine Spirits: Performing Gender in Jungian Theory and Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Body Matters: Feminism, Texual-ity, Corporeality. Ed. Avril Horner and Angela Keane. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. 244-254.

  2882. RUTHERFORD, Lisa Jane. “Objectification, Fragmentation, and Consumption: A Consideration of Feminist Themes in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman.” MA thesis. Carleton University, 2000. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (2001) and in .pdf format: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ57683.pdf. “This paper examines [the manner in which] Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman plays out the objectification, fragmentation, and consumption of female desire in contemporary Western society.” (Author). For more see MAI 39.5 (October 2001): 1294.

  2883. SCEATS, Sarah. Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. Atwood compared to Angela Carter, Anna Margaret Haycraft, Doris Lessing, and Michele B. Roberts. See especially Chapter 4, “Sharp Appetites: Margaret Atwood’s Consuming Politics,” 94-124.

  2884. SOMACARRERA, Pilar. “‘Barometer Couple’: Balance and Parallelism in Margaret Atwood’s Power Politics.” Language and Literature (Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association) 9.2 (May 2000): 135-149.

  2885. ______. Margaret Atwood: Poder y Feminismo. Madrid: Editiones del Orto, 2000.

  2886. STAELS, Hilde. “Atwoodian Gothic: From Lady Oracle to The Robber Bride.” Margaret Atwood. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000. 151-172. Reprinted from Margaret Atwood’s Novels: A Study of Narrative Discourse (1995). [Ed. note: Those who check Bloom’s book will discover that this reference has been transcribed correctly. The problem is that Bloom himself failed to correctly transcribe his sources. The book title is correctly attributed to Staels, but the article is incorrect (the Staels article is attributed to Howells [see 2832], and the Howells article is attributed to Staels). Equally disturbing, Bloom did not receive permission from either author to reproduce their work.]

  2887. ______. “Intertexts of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Modern Fiction Studies 46.2 (2000): 427-450. Comments on the fictionalization of life of Irish immigrant Grace Marks.

  2888. STEIN, Karen. “Margaret Atwood’s Modest Proposal: The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000. 191-204. Reprinted from Canadian Literature 148 (Spring 1996): 57-71.

  2889. STREHLE, Susan. “To the Beat of a Different Conundrum: Postmodern Science and Literature.” Postmodern Times: A Critical Guide to the Contemporary. Ed. Thomas Carmichael and Alison Lee. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 2000. 209-228. Atwood’s short-story “Age of Lead” jump-starts analysis.

  2890. STURGESS, Charlotte. “Body, Text and Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert.” Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 49 (2000): 59-66.

  2891. ______. “Margaret Atwood’s Short Fiction.” Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 87-96.

  2892. SULLIVAN, Rosemary. De Röda Skorna: Den Tidiga Margaret Atwood. Stockholm: Prisma, 2000. Swedish translation of The Red Shoes by Ulla Danielsson.

  2893. ______. The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out. [Sound recording]. Toronto: CNIB, 2000. 9 sound cassettes (13 hr., 28 min.). Recorded from HarperCollins 1998 title.

  2894. TAROZZI, Bianca. “Le divinità vendicative e Margaret Atwood.” Giochi di spec-chi. Ed. B. Gorjup and F. Valente. Ravenna [Italy]: Longo, 2000. 26-27.

  2895. THOMPSON, Dawn. Writing a Politics of Perception: Memory, Holography and Women Writers in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. See especially Chapter 2, “ReSurfacing: Quantum Visions of Shamanic Transformations,” 43-61.

  2896. WARE, Tracy. “Where Was Here?” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 203-214. Discusses the impact of authors Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood on other Canadian writers’ work.

  2897. WARNER, Lionel. “Raising Paranoia: Child-Theft in Three 1980s Novels.” Use of English 52.1 (2000): 49-55. The abduction of children in Graham Swift’s Water-land set against Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time.

  2898. WEST, Robert Malvern. “Contemporary Portraits of the Fragmented Self.” PhD thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. 193 pp. “A recurrent figure in late twentieth-century Anglo-American literature is the fragmented self. In prose fiction and drama, it may take the form of a character who experiences a splitting or a multiple fracturing of consciousness; in poetry, such a figure may be the subject under consideration and/or the poetic persona itself speaking. Although the notion of such a self is hardly original with the current period, it does appear in contemporary writing with remarkable frequency. In chapter three, West discusses novels and short stories by Thomas Pynchon and Margaret Atwood and explores the ways they use fragmentation as a device for characterization.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 60.04 (October 2000): 1396.

  2899. WILSON, Sharon Rose. “The Artist’s Marriage to Death in Bodily Harm.” Margaret Atwood. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000. 49-70. Reprinted from Margaret Atwood’s Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics (1993).

  2900. ______. “Mythological Intertexts in Margaret Atwood’s Works.” Margaret At-wood: Works and Impact. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 215-228.

  2901. WISKER, Gina. Post-Colonial and African American Women’s Writing: A Critical Introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. “Provides a critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the US, India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and introduces emergent women writers from South East Asia, Cyprus, and Oceania.” (Publisher).

  2902. WORKMAN, Nancy. “Vulnerability in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Rape Fantasies’: A Game of Cards about Life.” Studies in Canadian Literature 25.2 (2000): 131-144.

  2903. YORK, Lorraine. “‘He Should Do Well on the American Talk Shows’: Celebrity, Publishing, and the Future of Canadian Literature.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (Fall 2000): 96-105. “Three writers with ambiguous relationships to the celebrity world: Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields. They have each offered caustic critiques of star systems and yet been caught up in the Canadian celebrity marketing game. The prize-driven literary economy means that writers like these operate in an arena in which literary production is shaped as literary performance.” (Journal).

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  2904. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996.

  Journal of Modern Literature 23.3-4 (Summer 2000): 565-573. By W. H. New. Book among several reviewed.

  Law Now 25.3 (December-January 2000-2001): 38-39. By Rob NORMEY.

  2905. The Blind Assassin. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

  Albuquerque Journal 13 October 2000: 5. By Bay ANAPOL. (725 w).

  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 27 August 2000: 3D. By Diane ROBERTS. (745 w).

  Boston Globe 19 October 2000: Section: Living: D3. By Monica L. WILlIAMS. (913 w).

  Boston Herald
28 September 2000: Section: Arts and Life: 50. By Reeve LINDBERG. (422 w).

  Bulletin with Newsweek 118.6247 (24 October 2000): 103. By Anne SUSSKIND.

  Calgary Herald 2 September 2000: G6. By Catherine FORD.

  Charlotte Observer 28 September 2000: Section: Entertainment News: s.p. By Polly Paddock GOSSETT. Available from Lexis-Nexis. (695 w).

  Chatelaine 73.10 (October 2000): 18. By Bonnie SHIEDAL.

  Chicago Sun-Times 10 September 2000: Section: Show: 18. By Wendy SMITH. (886 w).

  Christian Science Monitor 92.196 (31 August 2000): 16. By Ron CHARLES. (853 w).

  Christian Science Monitor 92.249 (15 November 2000): 19. By Marilyn GARDNER. (617 w).

  Columbus Dispatch 5 November 2000: Section: Features: 7F. By Margaret QUAMME. (738 w).

  Daily News [New York] 10 September 2000: Section: Showtime: 15. By Sherryl CONNELLY. (492 w).

  Daily Telegraph 16 September 2000: 03. By Allison PEARSON.

  Daily Yomiuri [Tokyo] 19 November 2000: 15. By Linda GHAN. (741w).

  Denver Post 3 September 2000: H-04. By Dorman T. SHINDLER.

  Desert News [Salt Lake City] 12 November 2000: Section: Arts: E08. By Susan WHITNEY.

  Detroit Free Press 7 September 2000: Section: Entertainment News: s.p. By Susan HALL-BALDUF. Available from Lexis-Nexis. (903w).

  Economist 356.8189 (23 September 2000): 101-102. ANON. (752 w).

  Edmonton Journal 3 September 2000: E15. By Marc HORTON.

  Elle 16.1 (September 2000): 212. By Vince PASSARO.

  Entertainment Weekly 558 (8 September 2000): 83. By Megan HARLAN.

  Essays on Canadian Writing. Winter 2000: 131-137. By Allan HEPBURN. (2637 w).

  Evening Standard [London] 25 September 2000: 61. By Kate CHISHOLM. (630 w).

  Financial Mail [South Africa] 1 December 2000: Section: Arts & Leisure: 126. By Itumeleng MAHABANE. (710 w).

  Financial Times (London) 16 September 2000: Section: Books: 4. By Michele ROBERTS. (709 w).

  Florida Times-Union 1 October 2000: Section: Insight: G4. By Polly Paddock GOSSETT. (665 w).

  Fortune 142.9 (16 October 2000): 446. ANON.

  Fresh Air 12 September 2000: s.p. By Terry GROSS. Available from Lexis-Nexis. (797w).

  The Gazette [Montreal] 2 September 2000: J1. By Donna Bailey NURSE.

  Globe and Mail 2 September 2000: D8-D9. By Marina WARNER.

  The Guardian 30 September 2000: Section: Guardian Saturday Pages: 10. By Alex CLARK. (1154 w).

  Hamilton Spectator 2 September 2000: Section: Books: W04. ANON. (909 w).

  Harper’s Bazaar 3466 (September 2000): 406. By Melanie REHAK.

  Hartford Courant 1 October 2000: Section: Arts: G3. By Susan DUNNE. (619 w).

  The Herald [Glasgow] 14 October 2000: 20. By Graeme WOOLASTON. (403 w).

  Houston Chronicle 24 September 2000: Section: Zest: 21. By Sharan GIBSON: “Atwood Doesn’t Succeed with Complex Novel.” (934w).

  The Independent [London] 23 September 2000: Section: Features: 11. By Lisa APPIGNANESI. (934 w).

  International Herald-Tribune 7 September 2000: Section: Feature: 4. By Michael DIRDA. (Reprint of Washington Post review).

  Irish Times 16 September 2000: Section: Weekend: 69. By Eileen BAT-TERSBY. (1357w).

  Jerusalem Post 29 September 2000: Section: Books: 16B. By Nan GOLDBERG. (591 w).

  Library Journal 125.13 (August 2000): 151. By Beth E. ANDERSEN.

  London Free Press 2 September 2000: C7. By Nancy SCHIEFER. (1082 w).

  Los Angeles Times 22 October 2000: Section: Book Review: 7. By Merle RUBIN. (1152 w).

  Maclean’s 113.37 (11 September 2000): 54. By John BEMROSE. (1846 w).

  Mail on Sunday 15 October 2000: 66. By Katie OWEN.

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 3 September 2000: 06E. By Robert Allen PAPIN-CHAK. (604 w).

  Nation 271.19 (11 December 2000): 58. By Brenda WINEAPPLE.

  National Post 2 September 2000: B7. By Noah RICHLER.

  New Statesman 129.4506 (2 October 2000): 53. By Elaine SHOWALTER. (710 w).

  New York Times 8 September 2000: E43. By Michiko KAKUTANI. (788 w).

  New York Times Book Review 149.51500 (3 September 2000): 7. By Thomas MALLON. (1444 w).

  New Yorker 76.27 (18 September 2000): 142. By John UPDIKE. (2625 w).

  Newsweek 136.12 (18 September 2000): 85. By Catherine McGUIGAN.

  The Observer 17 September 2000: Section: Review Pages: 13. By Adam MARS-JONES. (707 w).

  Ottawa Citizen 3 September 2000: C16. By Rosalind MILES.

  People 54.14 (2 October 2000): 64. By Jean REYNOLDS.

  Plain Dealer 24 September 2000: Section: Sunday Arts: 111. By Ron ANTO-NUCCI. (501 w).

  The Press [Christchurch, NZ] 14 October 2000: Section: Features: 13. By Margaret QUINCY. (508 w).

  Press Journal [Vero Beach, FL] 24 September 2000 : Section: Indian River Country: C6. By Marilyn CHENAULT.

  The Province [Vancouver, BC] 24 Septemer 2000: D17. By Glen SCHAEFER.

  Publishers Weekly 247.30 (24 July 2000): 67. By Sybil S. STEINBERG.

  Quill & Quire 66.8 (August 2000): 21. By Stephen SMITH. (1051 w).

  The Record [Bergen County, NJ] 17 September 2000: Section: Your Times: Y3. By Susan HALL-BALDUF. (546 w).

  St. Petersburg Times 3 September 2000: Section: Perspective: 5D. By Samantha PLUCKETT. (549 w).

  San Diego Union Tribune 3 September 2000: Section: Books: 1. By Jennifer De POYEN. (1703 w).

  Scotland on Sunday 8 October 2000: 13. By Margaret MONTGOMERY.

  The Scotsman 7 October 2000: 10. By Michael FABER. (703 w).

  Seattle Times 10 September 2000: Section: Books: O12. By Robert Allen PAPINCHAK.

  The Spectator 7 October 2000: 50. By Anita BOOKNER.

  Star Tribune [Minneapolis] 3 September 2000: Section: Entertainment: 14F. By Joyce SLATER.

  Straits Times [Singapore] 4 November 2000: Section: Life: 18-19. By Jeremy SAMUEL.

  Sunday Oregonian 10 September 2000: Section: Arts and Living: E10. By An-gie JABINE. (958 w).

  Sunday Telegraph [London] 17 September 2000: 14. By Kathryn HUGHES.

  Sunday Times [London] 24 September 2000: Section: Features: s.p. By Peter KEMP. (855 w).

  The Telegram [St. John’s, NF] 17 September 2000: 19. By Anne Marie TOBIN.

  Time 156.11 (11 September 2000): 118. By Paul GRAY.

  The Times [London] 20 September 2000: Section: Features: s.p. By Erica WAGNER. (786 w).

  Times-Colonist [Victoria] 8 September 2000: D8. By Anne Marie TOBIN.

  Times-Picayune 13 September 2000: Section: Living: 01. By Susan LARSON. (969 w).

  TLS 5087 (29 September 2000): 24. By Lorna SAGE.

  Toronto Star 27 August 2000: Section: Entertainment: s.p. By Philip MARCHAND.

  Toronto Sun 10 September 2000: Section: Comment: C12. By Nancy SCHIEFER. (786 w).

  US Weekly 293 (25 September 2000): 56. By Katherine DIECKMANN.

  Vancouver Sun 26 August 2000: E1. By Annabel LYON.

  Vogue 190.9 (September 2000): 466. By Chloe BLAND.

  Wall Street Journal 1 September 2000: W 9. By Laura MILLER.

  Washington Post 3 September 2000: Section: Book World: X15. By Michael DIRDA. (1843 w).

  Washington Times 24 September 2000: Section: Books: B7. By Julie HYMAN. (1098 w).

  2906. The Blind Assassin. [Sound recording]. Read by Lorelei King. London: HarperCollins, 2000.

  The Independent [London] 18 November 2000: Section: Features: 11. By Christina HARDYMENT. (569 w).

  The Observer 19 November 2000: Section: Observer Review Pages: 14. By Kim BUNCE. (249 w).

  Sunday Times [London] 19 November 2000: Section: Features: s.p. By Karen ROBINSON. (155 w).

  2907. The Blind Assassin. [Sound recording]. Read by Margot Dionne. Prince Frederick, MD: Bantam-Doubleday Dell Audio, 2000.

  Calgary Herald 23 December 2000: G14. By Sandy BAUERS.

  Library Journal 1 December 2000: s.p. By D. L. SELWYN.

  Los Angeles Ti
mes 15 October 2000: Section: Southern California Living: E2. By Rochelle O’GORMAN. (797 w).

  Philadelphia Inquirer 17 December 2000: Section: Entertainment News: s.p. By Sandy BAUERS.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 69.1 (Winter 1999-2000): 348. By Judith KNELMAN.

  2908. The Labrador Fiasco. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.

  Canadian Children’s Literature 26.4-27.1 (Winter-Spring 2000): 157-159. By Jim GELLERT.

  2909. A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Ed. Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 1997.

  English Studies in Canada 26.3 (2000): 366-369. By Barbara PELL.

  2910. Two Solicitudes. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998.

  Iowa Review 29.3 (Winter 2000): 184-187. By Jennifer LEJEUNE.

  2911. Wilderness Tips. [Sound recording]. Read by Denica Fairman. Sterling: Dist. by Chivers AudioBooks, 2000. 8-1/4 hours.

  Booklist 97.2 (15 September 2000): 262-263. By Leah SPARKS.

  Library Journal 125.16 (1 October 2000): 167. By Laurie SELWYN.

  ~ 2001 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  2912. “[Afterword].” We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War. Ed. Barry Callaghan and Bruce Meyer. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2001. 207-212. Reflections on “In Flanders Fields.”

  2913. Alias Grace [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2001. Computer data (6 files: 130, 119, 129, 128, 103, 119 kilobytes). Braille formatted file.

  2914. “The Animals in That Country.” 15 Canadian Poets X3. 4th ed. Ed. Gary Geddes. Don Mills, ON: Oxford UP, 2001. 286. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1966-1984, ©1990.

  2915. “Betty.” Coming of Age: Short Stories about Youth and Adolescence. [Sound recording]. [Ed.] Bruce Emra. Burnaby, BC: Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia, 2001. 11 sound cassettes. Based on 1994 title.

  2916. The Blind Assassin. Leicester: Charnwood, 2001. Large print edition.

  2917. The Blind Assassin. Toronto: Seal Books; New York: Anchor Books. Random House; London: Virago, 2001. Paperback.

  2918. The Blind Assassin. [Sound recording]. Read by Aileen Seaton. Toronto: Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 2001. 1 CD-ROM (21 hr., 45 min.). Also available as 15 cassettes (22 hr., 20 min.).