Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  3102. STEIN, Karen. “Margaret Atwood’s Modest Proposal: The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. 127-140. Reprinted from Canadian Literature 148 (Spring 1996): 57-71.

  3103. STRAUBEL, Linda H., and Gayle ELLIOTT. “Margaret Eleanor Atwood.” A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English. Ed. Erin Fallon et al. West-port, CT: Greenwood Press, for Society for the Study of the Short Story, 2001. 29-37.

  3104. STRINGER, K. “Changing the Story: Authenticity and Identity in the Poetry of Margaret Atwood and Eavan Boland.” PhD thesis. University of Dundee, 2001. “I examine the differences in the poet’s interpretations of mythic and literary texts and the extent to which postcolonial and feminist discourses inform their poetry… The first chapter focuses on Atwood’s rewriting of the Circe, Orpheus and Eury-dice myths in her You Are Happy and Interlunar...The second chapter examines Atwood’s rewriting of the accounts of Susanna Moodie in her sequence, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, as she addresses the gaps in Susanna Moodie’s original texts and uses Moodie’s accounts as a focus for her exploration of her own personal poetic mythology of Canadian identity. Nature, and the culture/nature dualism, feature prominently in these poems.” (Author).

  3105. SULLIVAN, Rosemary. Memory-Making: Selected Essays. Windsor [ON]: Black Moss Press, 2001. See especially “Alias Margaret: The Radcliffe Years.” 38-52. Reprint of 1998 essay.

  3106. SVERRISDÓTTIR, Halla. “Í krafti orðsins: Um The Blind Assassin eftir Margaret Atwood.” Tímarit Máls og Menningar 62.1 (2001) 54-55. Translation of German title: “In the Power of the Word: On The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.”

  3107. SZALAY, Edina. “The Gothic as Maternal Legacy in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle.” Neohelicon 28.1 (2001): 216-236.

  3108. TEMPLIN, Charlotte. “Margaret Atwood’s Comedy: The Trickster, the Fat Lady, and the Gendered Body in Lady Oracle.” Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society 26-27 (Fall-Winter 2001): 11.

  3109. TIEDEMANN, Heidi Janean. “After the Fact: Contemporary Feminist Fiction and Historical Trauma (Margaret Atwood, Nora Okja Keller, Joy Kogawa, Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez).” PhD thesis. University of Toronto, 2001. Also available on microfiche from Canadian Theses Service (2002) and as .pdf file: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ63656.pdf. “Many trauma novels take the form of historical fiction, narrated in the first-person by fictional or fictionalized survivors whose accounts bear witness to the need for violent actions to be admitted into public consciousness. This dissertation proposes that concerns about the construction of identities, chiefly in terms of gender, race, and sexuality, have been grafted onto past events, creating a testimonial and explicitly feminist form of fiction authored by women writers from a range of cultural backgrounds. These novels frequently deal with women survivors, highlighting the relationships between narration, gender, and trauma. The works I examine—Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman, Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies—stress that both trauma and recovery have collective as well as individual dimensions…They make claims on readers to function as the receivers of painful and complicated stories, in order to assist in the creation of historical memory.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 62.11 (May 2002): 3963.

  3110. TOMC, Sandra. “‘The Missionary Position’: Feminism and Nationalism in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. 81-91. Reprinted from Canadian Literature 138-139 (Fall-Winter 1993).

  3111. WILSON, Sharon Rose. “Off the Path to Grandma’s House in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. 63-79. Reprinted from Margaret Atwood’s FairyTale Sexual Politics, ©1993.

  3112. WITTKE, Petra. “Of ‘Heres’ and ‘Theres’ and ‘Wheres’ and ‘Whats’: Die liter-arische Kartographie einer nationalen Identität.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Un-terricht 34.1 (2001): 41-48. A look at national identity in fiction by Margaret At-wood and Alice Munro.

  3113. YÜCEL, Sükran. “Margaret Atwood: Sanatçinin Bir Kadin Olarak Portresi.” E: Aylik Kültür ve Edebiyat Dergisi 23 (2001): 69-71. Turkish article on Atwood.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  3114. “Margaret Atwood.” Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Vol. 46. Ed. Justin Carr. Detroit, MI; New York: Gale, 2001. 24-101.

  A compendium of excerpts from critics and reviewers.

  3115. The Blind Assassin. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Also published in New York by Nan A. Talese and in London by Bloomsbury.

  Americas 53.1 (January-February 2001): 61-62. By Barbara MUJICA.

  Birmingham Evening Mail 13 January 2001: 39. By Z.C. (179 w).

  Border Crossings 20.1 (February 2001): 77-79. By Wayne TEFS.

  Capital Times [Madison, WI] 5 January 2001: 7A. By Anita WEIER. (720 w).

  Christian Century 118.17 (28 February 2001): 28. By Ann-Janine MOREY.

  The Herald [Glasgow] 6 January 2001: 10. By Pamela TIMMS. Opinions of a book club. (1258 w).

  Herizons 14.4 (Spring 2001): 30. By Irene D’SOUZA.

  Lancet 357.9262 (7 April 2001): 1138. By Rebecca J. DAVIES. (1039 w).

  Library Journal 126.13 (1 August 2001): 196. By Nancy PEARL. 1 of 4 books reviewed.

  Missouri Review 24.2 (2001): 202-203. By Melissa SOLIS.

  Resource Links (Canadian Council for Learning Resources) 7.1 (October 2001): 56-57. By Margaret MACKEY.

  Room of One’s Own 23.3 (2001): 101-102. By Virginia AULIN.

  Southland Times [NZ] 27 January 2001: 34. By Paul FOCAMP.

  Sunday Age [Melbourne] 25 February 2001: Section: Books: 11. Reader comments.

  Sunday Times [London] 26 August 2001: Section: Features: s.p. By Trevor LEWIS. (271 w). Available from Lexis-Nexis.

  Yale Review 89.2 (April 2001): 159-169. By Diana POSTLETHWAITE. (“This story is not nearly worthy of its author’s talents.”)

  Women’s Review of Books 18.6 (March 2001): 1-2. By Molly HITE.

  World and I 16.1 (January 2001): 234. By Roberta RUBENSTEIN.

  3116. The Blind Assassin. London: Virago, 2001.

  Birmingham Post 29 September 2001: 53. By Charlie HILL. (473 w).

  New Straits Times (Malaysia) 3 October 2001: Section: Books: 5. By Sharon TOH. (817 w).

  3117. The Blind Assassin [Sound recording]. Read by Lorelei King. London: HarperCollins, 2000. Abridged version.

  Irish Times 20 January 2001: 73. By Arminta WALLACE. (128 w).

  3118. The Blind Assassin [Sound recording]. Read by Margot Dionne. Prince Frederick, MD: Bantam Doubleday, 2000.

  Booklist 97.12 (15 February 2001): 1164. By Mary Frances WILKENS.

  Roanoke Times & World News 11 February 2001: Section Books: 6. By Mary Ann JOHNSON.

  San Antonio Express-News 7 January 2001: 6G. By Sanda BAURS.

  3119. Bluebeard’s Egg [Sound recording]. Read by Bonnie Hurren. Bath [UK]: Chivers, 2000. 9 hr., 8 cassettes.

  Booklist 97.12 (15 February 2001): 1166.

  3120. Good Bones and Simple Murders. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2001?

  Buffalo News 18 November 2001: F5. By Charity VOGEL. (521 w).

  3121. A Quiet Game and Other Early Works. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 1997.

  Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001): 120-121. By Pilar SOMACARRERA.

  3122. Two Solicitudes: Conversations. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998.

  Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001): 120-121. By Pilar SOMACARRERA.

  Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  3123. RUDERS, Poul, composer. “Tjenerindens Fortælling [Sound recording].” Dacapo, 2000. Opera based on The Handmaid’s Tale. Librettist, Paul Bentley. 2 sound discs in 1 container.

  Daily Telegraph [London] 17 February 20
01: 11. By Matthew RYE. (217 w).

  Globe and Mail 1 March 2001: R6. By Robert EVERETT-GREEN.

  The Guardian (London) 19 January 2001: 15. By Tim ASHLEY. (134 w).

  The Independent (London) 19 January 2001: 16. By Rob COWEN. (611 w).

  St. Petersburg Times 5 August 2001: 8F. By John FLEMING. (1294 w).

  ~ 2002 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  3124. A mulher comestível. Lisbon: Editora Livros do Brasil, 2002. Portuguese translation of The Edible Woman by Paulo Moreira.

  3125. Alias Grace. Halifax, NS: Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority Resources Centre for the Visually Impaired, 2002. Large print ed., 2 v.

  3126. The Blind Assassin. [Sound recording]. Read by Johanne Marshall. Vancouver, BC: Crane Resource Centre, 2002. 14 tape reels.

  3127. Bodily Harm. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Publishing, 2002 ©1982. Large print edition.

  3128. Bodily Harm. [Sound recording]. Read by Bonnie Hurren. Bath [UK]: Chivers Audio Books; Hampton, NH: Chivers North America, 2002. Cassette tape, 8 sound cassettes (ca. 10 hr., 8 min.).

  3129. Cat’s Eye. [Sound recording]. Multiple readers. Vancouver, BC: Crane Resource Centre, 2002. 11 sound cassettes.

  3130. “Comment je suis devenue écrivaine.” Châtelaine 43.2 (February 2002): 40-45

  3131. “Cryogenics: A Symposium.” When the World Comes Leaping Up: Personal Encounters with Nature. Ed. David T. Suzuki. Vancouver, BC; New York: Greystone Books, 2002. 143-148.

  3132. Den blinde morder. Copenhagen: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2002. Danish translation of The Blind Assassin by Lisbeth Møller-Madsen.

  3133. El cuenta de la criada. Madrid: Suma de Letras, 2002. Spanish translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Elsa Mateo Blanco.

  3134. “End Economic Sanctions against Iraq.” Morning Star 20 March 2002: 20. At-wood is one of a number of signatories on this open letter.

  3135. “[Excerpt].” Chronicle of Higher Education 48.23 (15 February 2002): B6. From Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing.

  3136. “[Excerpt].” National Review 3 July 2002: s.p. Available from Lexis-Nexis. Excerpt from Atwood’s poem “The Loneliness of the Military Historian” in an article by Victor David Hanson entitled “The Return of Military History?”

  3137. “[Excerpt].” Vancouver Sun 9 March 2002: D15. From Negotiating with the Dead.

  3138. “[Excerpt].” Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to More Than Forty Important Writers. 2nd ed. Ed. Janet Bukovinsky Teacher. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002. 207-209. From The Robber Bride.

  3139. “First Job.” The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. Ed. Tammy Roberts et al. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002. 626-628. First published as “Ka-Ching!” New Yorker 23, 30 April 2001: 72.

  3140. Good Bones. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2002. 1 computer laser optical disc (2 hr., 36 min.). Based on 1992 edition.

  3141. “The Great God Pan: Images of the Writer as Priestess and Femme Fatale.” TLS: Times Literary Supplement 22 February 2002: 12-14. Problems faced by female artists, particularly in regard to money.

  3142. “Green Gifts.” Globe and Mail 30 November 2002: L5. Atwood shares her eco-picks for the holiday. These include: 1) The French or cotton shopping bag; 2) The garden rake; 3) A hemp product; 4) The organic cotton T-shirt; 5) A set of Nature Clean cleaning products; 6) The light, self-sharpening push mower from Lee Valley; 7) The Caroma double-flush toilet; 8) The four-stoke outboard motor; 9) The Prius hybrid car; and 10) The Arise all-solar-powered house. She comments briefly on each product, and then the Globe thoughtfully tells readers where to obtain each one.

  3143. “Hairball.” To Come to Light: Perspectives on Chronic Illness in Modern Literature. Ed. Amy Bonomi. Seattle, WA: Whit Press, 2002. 21. A limited edition anthology published primarily for attendees of the Congress on Improving Chronic Care, 23-24 September 2002 in Seattle. Reprinted with permission from Wilderness Tips, ©1990.

  3144. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2002. Reprint.

  3145. The Handmaid’s Tale. Korea: Goldenberg, 2002. Korean translation edition is published by arrangement with O.W. Toad, c/o Curtis Brown, London. Title romanized.

  3146. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Read by Geneviève Pelletier. Winnipeg: Manitoba Education and Training, 2002. 13 sound cassettes (12 hr., 30 min.).

  3147. “Happy Endings.” The Longman Masters of Short Fiction. [Ed.] Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2002. 22-24. Reprinted from Good Bones and Simple Murders, ©1983.

  3148. “How I Became a Writer.” [Videorecording]. [Chicago]: Northeastern Illinois University, 2002. VHS tape, 1 videocassette (ca. 80 min.). Atwood speaks about how she became a writer and the life experiences which influenced her over the past 4-1/2 decades. At the end of the lecture some questions were taken from the audience. Videotaped for the Presidential Lecture Series, Northeastern Illinois University, 17 January 2002.

  3149. “The Indelible Woman.” The Guardian (London) 7 September 2002: 37. Atwood wonders how she could have been so wrong about To the Lighthouse.

  3150. “Introduction.” Doctor Glas. Hjalmar Söderberg. New York: Anchor Books, 2002. [5]-10. This edition has been translated from the original Swedish by Paul Britten Austin.

  3151. “Introduction.” Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee. Ed. Christian Bök. Toronto: Anansi, 2002. ix-xv. Atwood confesses to being “the instigator of this book.”

  3152. “Introduction.” High Latitudes: A Northern Journey. By Farley Mowat. Toronto: Key Porter, 2002. ix-xi.

  3153. “Introduction.” She. By H. Rider Haggard. New York: Modern Library, 2002. xvii-xxiv.

  3154. “Jay Macpherson: Poems Told Twice.” American and Canadian Women Poets 1930–Present. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadephia: Chelsea House, 2002. 175-178. Reprinted from Second Words, ©1982.

  3155. Kakacs. Riga: Atena Klubs, 2002. Latvian translation of Cat’s Eye by Silvija Brice.

  3156. La donna da mangiare: Romanzo. Milan: Corbaccio, 2002. Italian translation of The Edible Woman by Mario Manzari.

  3157. Le tueur aveugle. Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 2002. French translation of The Blind Assassin by Michèle Albaret-Maatsch.

  3158. Mang Yan Ci Ke. Taipei: Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si, 2002. Chinese translation of The Blind Assassin by Liang Yong’an yi. Title romanized.

  3159. Mao yan. Nanking: Yilin Press, 2002. Chinese translation of Cat’s Eye by Hao-cheng Yang. Title romanized.

  3160. Modrovousovo vejce. Prague: Volvox Globator, 2002. Czech translation of Bluebeard’s Egg by Martina Kotrbová.

  3161. “Muerte Pos Paisaje.” Dónde Es Aquí? 25 Cuentos Canadienses. Ed. by Claudia Lucotti. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002. 223-245. Excerpt from Wilderness Tips (1991); translated into Spanish by Monica Mansour.

  3162. Muzeum zkamenelin. Prague: Odeon, 2002. Czech translation of Life Before Man by Viktor Janiš.

  3163. “Mystery Man: The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, Dashiell Hammett [and] Crime Stories and Other Writings.” New York Review of Books 49.2 (14 February 2002): 19-21. Book reviews of Hammett’s letters, of his daughter Jo’s memoirs, and of his crime stories.

  3164. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. “What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain—or excuse!—their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book’s title: if a writer is to be seen as ‘gifted,’ who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?” (Publisher).

  3165. Negoziando con le ombre. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2002. Italian translation of Negotiating with the Dead by Massimo Birattari and Riccardo Cravero.

  3166. Nimel
tään Grace. Helsinki: Otava, 2002. Finnish translation of Alias Grace by Kristiina Drews.

  3167. “Nostalgia.” Vogue 192.12 (December 2002): 78, 80. Atwood discusses how she designed and made her own clothes when she was a teenager.

  3168. Occhio di gatto. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2002. Italian translation of Cat’s Eye by Marco Papi.

  3169. “Of Myths and Men.” Globe and Mail 13 April 2002: R10. The first time Atwood saw the Inuit epic, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, she was on an ice-breaker in the Arctic; it was an unusual but perfect way to experience this breathtaking new movie.

  3170. Ojo de gato. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2002. Spanish translation of Cat’s Eye by Jordi Mustieles.

  3171. “On the Canadian Identity.” The Longman Masters of Short Fiction. [Ed.] Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2002. 24-25. Reprinted from Strange Things, ©1995.

  3172. “On the Trail of Dashiell Hammett.” Globe and Mail 28 February 2002: R1, R7. A longer version of this article appeared in the New York Review of Books. See 3163.

  3173. Oryx and Crake: A Novel. New York: Random House Large Print, 2002. 571 pp.

  3174. “The Owl and the Pussycat, Some Years Later.” Pretext 5 (2002): 167-172. Poem concludes this volume of writing published by Pen & Inc. Press, which began in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

  3175. “A Path Taken, with All the Certainty of Youth.” New York Times 11 March 2002: E1. Excerpt from Negotiating with the Dead reflects on Atwood’s decision to become a writer.

  3176. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. Toronto: Key Porter, 2002. Paper reprint.

  3177. “Pump Twin.” April Witch: A Novel. By Majgull Axelsson. New York: Villard, 2002. [97]. Excerpt from “A Sad Child” published in Morning in the Burned House, ©1995. April Witch was originally published in Swedish in 1997.

  3178. “The Queen of Quinkdom.” New York Review of Books 49.14 (26 September 2002): 23-25. Review of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: Harper Collins, 2002).