Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  3290. REYNOLDS, Margaret, and Jonathan NOAKES. Margaret Atwood: The Essential Guide: The Handmaid’s Tale, Bluebeard’s Egg, The Blind Assassin [and Other Stories]. London: Vintage, 2002. iv, 163 pp. Student study guide. Includes interview with Atwood (see Interview section) and bibliographical references 158-163. [Ed. note: Cover title adds “and Other Stories.”]

  3291. RIMSTEAD, Roxanne. “Working-Class Intruders: Female Domestics in Ka-mouraska and Alias Grace.” Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 44-67.

  3292. ROBINSON, Laura M. “‘Acts of Self-Exposure’: Closeted Desire in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” English Studies in Canada 28.2 (June 2002): 223-246.

  3293. SARRAZIN, Timothy M. C. “Reading The Handmaid’s Tale.” MA thesis. University of Hong Kong, 2002. ii, 39 pp. Contents and abstract viewable at http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/index.jsp.

  3294. SENECAL, Nikole Alexa. “(Mis)Representations of Violent Women.” PhD thesis. University of Southern California, 2002. 225 pp. “My dissertation reexamines the issue of women’s violence from a feminist perspective that is open to the idea of such aggression redefining ‘femininity’ in helpful ways. Rejecting the positions of both conservative forces and those feminists who believe that a woman is naturally non-violent, I undertake a more nuanced reading of the violent woman. I argue that opening and continuing discussions of women’s violence allows scholars to critique fully the ideals of womanhood and to explore all options for women’s equality. This study focuses on works by contemporary North American women writers Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 64.06 (December 2003): 2087.

  3295. SIMMONS, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. New York: Harcourt, 2002. Includes discussion of Cat’s Eye, pages 21-22.

  3296. SIZEMORE, Christine Wick. Negotiating Identities in Women’s Lives: Eight Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. See especially Chapter 1, “Girlhood Identities: The Search for Adulthood in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye,” [21]-35.

  3297. STILL, Judith. “Bluebeards and Bodies: Margaret Atwood’s Men.” Ilha do De-sterro: A Journal of Language and Literature 42 (2002): 165-180. Focus on The Blind Assassin. Portuguese summary.

  3298. STOTT, Belinda. “The Cinderella Syndrome: Margaret Atwood’s Fairy Tale Imagery and the Deeper Implications of its Appeal to the Contemporary Women.” Passages to Canada: Eighteen Essayistic Routes / Passages vers Le Canada: Dix huit routes essaylistique. Proceedings of the European Student Seminars on Graduate Work in Canadian Studies. Ed. Markus Müller, Robert Chr. Thomsen, and David Parris. Brno [Czech Republic]: Masaryk UP, 2002. 54-62. “The Cinderella Syndrome refers to a behavioural pattern which involves denying responsibility for one’s situation in life by adhering to the role of a passive victim, and that victim ostensibly awaits salvation from an external other.” (Author).

  3299. STRINGER, Kim. “Shared Experiences: Susanna Moodie Relived in Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 15.1-2 (2002): 170-181.

  3300. SWEENEY, Megan Louise. “Doing Time, Reading Crime: Rethinking ‘The Female Criminal.’” PhD thesis. Duke University, 2002. 400 pp. “[This thesis] combines ethnographic and interpretive work in order to theorize how individuals reading literary texts, and literary texts reading the social world, can help to wrest prisons from their normalized status as the primary means of addressing social problems. My ethnographic archive consists of interviews and group conversations with seventeen women imprisoned in the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. My literary archive consists of fiction featuring criminalized women—by Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Carole Maso, Gayl Jones, Pearl Cleage, and Toni Morrison—and a variety of true crime books. In exploring how the featured readers and texts reproduce, resist, and/or retheorize dominant conceptions of ‘the female criminal,’ I shuttle between literary analysis, readers’ responses, discussions of issues such as the criminalization of drug use during pregnancy, and engagements with feminist legal theory, political theory, critical race theory, literary criticism, and criminology.” (Author). For more see DAI-A 64.01 (July 2003): 195.

  3301. TRIGG, Susan. “Mermaids and Sirens as Myth Fragments in Contemporary Literature.” MA thesis. Deakin University, Victoria, 2002. 97 pp. “[This thesis] examines novels by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter that contain myth fragments of mermaids and sirens. It postulates the origin of the myths as stemming from the ambivalent relationship that male infants form with the mother, and discusses how these authors deconstruct the binary oppositions that disadvantage women.” (Author).

  3302. WAGNER-LAWLOR, Jennifer A. “The Play of Irony: Theatricality and Utopian Transformation in Contemporary Women’s Speculative Fiction.” Utopian Studies 13.1 (2002): 114-134. “Presents an essay that explored the trope of performance, theatricality and utopian potentialities that pervades a number of 20th-century works of speculative fiction by women. The Female Man by Joanna Russ, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper.” (Author abstract).

  3303. WILSON, Sharon R. “Margaret Atwood and Popular Culture: The Blind Assassin and Other Novels.” Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 26.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2002): 270-275.

  3304. WISKER, Gina. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace: A Reader’s Guide. New York; London: Continuum, 2002. 96 pp. Series: Continuum Contemporaries.

  3305. WOOD, Ruth. “Called to be a Handmaid: Defending Margaret Atwood.” Censored Books, II: Critical Viewpoints, 1985-2000. Ed. Nicholas J. Karolides and Nat Hentoff. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2002. 199-205.

  3306. ZIRKER, Herbert. Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian— Jonathan Swift, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Di Brandt and Dennis Cooley. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2002. See especially Chapter 6, “Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale: A ‘Variety of Literary Utopias,’” 117-130.

  Reviews of Atwood’s Works

  3307. The Blind Assassin. Toronto; New York: McClelland and Stewart; Doubleday, 2000.

  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 27 January 2002: 5D. By Greg CHANGNON. (676 w). Reprinted by the Cox News Service.

  Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne 173 (Summer 2002): 114-116. By Coral Ann HOWELLS.

  Southern Humanities Review 36.1 (Winter 2002): 91-93. By E. TEMPLEMAN.

  World Literature Today 76.1 (Winter 2002): 110. By B. A. St. ANDREWS.

  3308. The Blind Assassin. [Sound recording]. Read by Margaret Dionne. Prince Frederick, MD: Bantam Doubleday, 2000.

  The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) 3 February 2002: E3. By Peggy EARLE. (132 w).

  3309. The Edible Woman. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

  Chicago Sun-Times 9 July 2002: Section: Features: 20. By Carol SLEZAK.

  3310. Good Bones and Simple Murders. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2001.

  Boston Globe 20 January 2002: G3. By Amanda HELLER. (716 w).

  3311. Good Bones and Simple Murders. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001.

  Books in Canada 31.1 (February 2002): 10. By Kathryn KUITENBROUWER. (564 w).

  3312. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1997. Originally published in 1980 in a limited edition as a livre d’artiste. Includes a memoir by Charles Pachter and a foreword by David Staines.

  Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 118-120. By Jon KERTZER.

  3313. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

  Atlanta Journal and Constitution 17 March 2002: 5D. By Steven G. KELLMAN. (541 w).

  Baltimore Sun 3 March 2002: 10E. By Michael PAKENHAM. (1074 w).

  Books in Canada 31.4 (June-July 2002): 5-6. By T. F. RIGELHOF.

  Boston Globe 7 July 2002: D4. By James SALLIS. (797 w).

  Calgary Herald 9 March 2002: ES09. By Gordon MORASH.

  Canberra Times 29 June 2002: A16. ANON.


  Charlotte Observer 6 June 2002: Section: Entertainment News. By Jean Blish SIERS. (271 w).

  Choice 40.2 (October 2002): 275-276. By E.R. BAER.

  Columbus Dispatch 14 April 2002: 07F. By Kassie ROSE.

  Contemporary Review June 2002: 383-384. ANON (i.e., P.P.F.).

  Courier Mail [Queensland, Australia] 23 March 2002: M05. By Phillip DEAN. (922 w).

  Cox News Service 14 March 2002: Section: Entertainment, Television and Culture. By Steven G. KELLMAN. (540 w).

  Daily Telegraph (London) 9 March 2002: 04. By Sam LEITH. (687 w).

  Edmonton Journal 10 March 2002: D12. By Todd BABIAK.

  Globe and Mail 23 March 2002: D5. By J. S. PORTER.

  The Herald (Glasgow) 9 March 2002: 12. ANON. (670 w).

  Herald Sun (Melbourne) 6 April 2002: W28. By Sarah HUDSON. (87 w).

  The Independent (London) 19 July 2002: Section: Features: 17. By Ruth PADEL. (536 w).

  Irish Times 15 June 2002: Section: Weekend: 58. By Eilis ni DHUIBHNE. (675 w).

  Library Journal 127.5 (15 March 2002): 80. By Mary Paumier JONES.

  London Free Press (Ontario) 9 March 2002: D7. By Nancy SCHIEFER. (800 w).

  London Review of Books 24.8 (25 April 2002): 14. ANON.

  Los Angeles Times 18 March 2002: Section: Southern California Living: Part 5: 3. By Merle RUBIN. (922 w).

  Magill Book Reviews 1 November 2002: s.l. By Rosemary M. Canfield REIS-MAN. (277 w). “Not an easy read….” Available from Ebsco’s Academic Search Premier.

  Montreal Gazette 18 May 2002: G3. By Pat DONNELLY.

  National Post 9 March 2002: SP1. By Joan BODGER.

  New Zealand Herald 28 July 2002: Section: Entertainment; Books; Reviews. By Jane WESTAWAY. (518 w).

  Ottawa Citizen 17 March 2002: C11. By Reamy JANSEN.

  Richmond Times Dispatch 26 May 2002: E4. By Jeff LODGE.

  The Scotsman 2 March 2002: 7. By Allan MASSIE. (805 w).

  Scotsman on Sunday 17 March 2002: 4. By Andrew CRUMEY. (517 w).

  Seattle Times 24 March 2002: I11. By Irene WANNER.

  South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 4 May 2002: Section: Feature: 4. By Doug NAIRNE. (449 w).

  The Spectator 9 March 2002: 44-45. By Anita BROOKNER. (1069 w).

  Sunday Telegraph (London) 10 March 2002: 13. By Christopher TAYLOR. (638 w).

  Sunday Times (London) 7 April 2002: Section: Features.

  The Times (London) 13 March 2002: Section: Features. By Iain FINLAYSON. (171 w).

  Times Colonist (Victoria) 21 April 2002: C9. By Reamy JANSEN.

  Times Union (Albany, NY) 24 March 2002: J4. By Steven G. KELLMAN. (250 w).

  TLS: Times Literary Supplement 5174 (31 May 2002): 24. By Margaret STEAD.

  Toronto Star 24 March 2002: D15. ANON (1549 w).

  Tulsa World 20 June 2002: Section: Books. By Jean Blish SIERS.

  Vancouver Sun 9 March 2002: D15. By Lynn COADY.

  Washington Post 17 March 2002: T08. By Craig NOVA. (837 w).

  Women’s Review of Books 19.8 (May 2002): 10-11. By Susan BALEE.

  Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  3314. The Edible Woman. Adapted by Dave CARLEY. Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2002. Play based on the novel.

  Globe and Mail 23 February 2002: R19. ANON.

  Hamilton Spectator 6 March 2002: D04. By Gary SMITH. (859 w).

  National Post 25 February 2002: B15. ANON.

  Toronto Sun 1 March 2002: E12. By John COULBOURN. (492 w).

  3315. The Handmaid’s Tale. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2002. Videocassette (109 min.). Originally released as motion picture in 1990.

  Daily Record 29 June 2002: Section: Television: 27. (Review of [then] upcoming TV broadcast.)

  ~ 2003 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  3316. Adam’kush-i kur. Tehran: Ququnus, 2003. Persian translation of The Blind Assassin by Shahin Asayish.

  3317. Aklasis zudikas. Vilnius: Alma Littera, 2003. Lithuanian translation of The Blind Assassin by Valdas V. Petrauskas.

  3318. Alias Grace. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (21 files: 213.15 mb).

  3319. Alias Grace. [Internet resource]. New York: RosettaBooks, 2003. Accessible at http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={A3CE95B0-3BDD-496E-FB7-78832FE3D2B9}&Format=150 [Palm Reader version].

  3320. “Amazement.” Prize Writing: The 10th Anniversary Collection. Ed. Gary Stephen Ross. Toronto: The Giller Prize Foundation in association with Coach House Books, 2003. 39-46. Focus on Alias Grace, which won the prize in 1996.

  3321. “Apple Jelly.” Stories from Where We Live: The Great Lakes. Ed. Sara St. An-toine. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2003. 139. Poem.

  3322. “Arguing Against Ice Cream.” New York Review of Books 50.10 (2003): 6-8. Review of Bill McKibben’s Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.

  3323. “At Home among the Bluenosers.” New York Times Magazine 16 November 2003: Section: 6: Pt. 2: 52. Lunenburg, NS; a travel piece (1541 w).

  3324. Att förhandla med de döda: En författare om skrivandet. Stockholm: Prisma, 2003. Swedish translation of Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Ulla Danielsson.

  3325. The Blind Assassin. Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2003. Paperback.

  3326. The Blind Assassin. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (138 files: 593 mb).

  3327. The Blind Assassin. [Internet resource]. New York: RosettaBooks, 2003. Electronic book accessible at http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID = { 0E5F54C4-76DA-43B8-9E23-9BF27F235750}&Format = 50 [Abobe acrobat version]; http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID = {0E5F54C4-76DA-43B8-9E23-9BF27F235750}&Format = 150 [Palm Reader version].

  3328. Bodily Harm. [Sound recording]. Read by Bonnie Hurren. Bath [UK]: BBC Audiobooks; Hampton, NH: BBC Audiobooks America, 2003. Unabridged. 8 CD-ROMS; ca. 10 hours.

  3329. Bodily Harm. [Sound recording]. Read by Sandy McNeil. Vancouver, BC: Crane Library, 2003. 7 tape reels.

  3330. “Bonaparte to Bush: You’ll Be Sorry” Globe & Mail 1 March 2003: A17. Lessons from Napoleon that Bush might have paid attention to. (958 w). Also published as “Why the 1812 Overture Should Be Ringing Some Bells Today.” Daily Telegraph (London) 5 March 2003: 24; “Napoleon’s Blunders: A Tale of Preemptive Strikes Gone Wrong.” Los Angeles Times 16 March 2003: M1; “Tchaikovsky’s Overture and the Risk of Preemption.” The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 20 March 2003: Section: Opinion: L11; “Napoleon’s Blunders.” Standard (St. Catharines, ON) 21 March 2003: A7; “Liberators Aren’t Always Welcome.” Vancouver Sun 21 March 2003: A10; “Pre-emptive Strikes Gone Wrong: Napoleon’s Blunder.” Edmonton Journal 23 March 2003: D8. Commenting in the Los Angeles Times on 19 March (Section: California Metro: 12), Frank O. Clark noted: “To suggest that universal truths emanate through the nexus of Atwood’s point of view in this whimsical history lesson is farfetched and misguided. I do, however, believe her successful career as a writer of fiction is secure.”

  3331. “The Book Lover’s Tale: Using Literature to Stay Afloat in a Fundamentalist Sea.” Literary Review of Canada September 2003: 5-6. A review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.

  3332. Captive. Paris: Laffont, 2003 ©1998. French translation of Alias Grace by Michèle Albaret-Maatsch.

  3333. “Carol Shields: 2 June 1935-16 July 2003.” Entertainment Weekly 743 (26 December 2003): 103. Short obituary of Shields (135 w).

  3334. “Castle of the Imagination.” New York Review of Books 50.1 (16 January 2003): 27-28. Review of Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart.

  3335. Cat’s Eye. [Internet resource]. New York: RosettaBooks, 2003. Accessible at http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={02F2B82B-AE78-4105-83A3-B09B36DAFD05}&Format=50 [Adobe Acrobat version].

  3336. Dançarinas e outras histórias. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2003. Portuguese translation of Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Lia Wyler.

  3337. “The Dark Side of Perfection.” The Times (London) 18 Jun
e 2003: Section: Features: 18. Review of Bill McKibben’s Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature (London: Bloomsbury, 2003). An earlier version of this article appeared in the New York Review of Books.

  3338. “Democracy: Use It or Lose It.” Harvard Magazine 105.6 (July-August 2003): 65. Reprint of luncheon address. Also available at http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070300.html (1 May-June 2006).

  3339. Den blinde morderen. Oslo: Aschehoug Moderne, 2003. Norwegian translation of The Blind Assassin by Inger Gjelsvik.

  3340. “Der Lesende by Kathe Kollwitz.” Paris Review 45.167 (2003): 100-101. Presents the interpretation of the charcoal drawing on butten paper “Der Lesende” by Kathe Kollwitz.

  3341. The Edible Woman. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (44 files: 146 mb).

  3342. El Asesino Ciego. 3rd ed. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2003. Spanish translation of The Blind Assassin by Dolors Udina.

  3343. “Elegy for the Giant Tortoises.” Intersections: The Human Impact on the Global Environment—A Course for All First-Year Students. Designed by Intersections Council Members. Lincoln, MA: Tapestry Press, 2003. 1. Reprinted from The Animals in That Country, ©1969 and Selected Poems 1965-1975, ©1976.

  3344. Entering the Labyrinth: Writing The Blind Assassin. Wollongong: University of Wollongong Press, 2003. Volume includes Atwood’s address, with the same title as the volume, 15-30, plus two essays also indexed here, one by Coral Ann How-ells, “Sites of Desolation” (31-46), and the other by Dorothy Jones, “Narrative Enclosures” (47-67). Atwood’s Nortel Networks Canadian Studies Address was presented on 9 March 2001. This is the second in a series edited by Gerry Turcotte.

  3345. “[Excerpt].” Albuquerque Journal (NM) 6 April 2003: Section: Final: B8. From Atwood’s “Letter to America” on the Iraq War (see 3376).

  3346. “[Excerpt].” Almost to Freedom. By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Colin Boot-man. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2003. Frontispiece. Excerpt from Atwood poem (“A doll is a witness who cannot die, with a doll you are never alone”) included on frontispiece of a book telling the story of a young girl’s dramatic escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad, from the perspective of her beloved rag doll.