Scholarship and criticism on Margaret Atwood

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This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.




Articles

ABC

Joseph Andriano.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale as a Scrabble Game." Essays on Canadian Writing v 48 (1992-93) pp. 89-96.
Chinmoy Banerjee.
  • "Alice in Disneyland: Criticism as Commodity in The Handmaid's Tale." Essays on Canadian Writing v 41 (Summer 1990) pp 74-92.
Frances Bartkowski.
  • "No Shadows Without Light. " Feminist Utopias. Lincoln & London : U of Nebraska P, 1989. 133-58. Comparison of The Handmaid's Tale and L'Eugelionne (1976) by Louky Bersianik.
Nancy Topping Bazin.
  • "Women and Revolution in Dystopian Fiction : Nadine Gordimer's July's People and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Selected Essays : International Conference on Representing Revolution 1989. Ed. John Michael Grafton. Carrollton, Ga. : West Georgia College, 1991. 115-27.
Jonathan Bignell.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale: Novel and Film" British Journal of Canadian Studies v 8 n 1 (1993): pp 71-84.
Larry W. Caldwell.
  • "Wells, Orwell, and Atwood : (EPI)Logic and Eu/Utopia." Extrapolation v33, n4 (Winter 1992) : 333-45.
I. Cavalcanti.


DEF

June Deery.
  • "Science for Feminists: Margaret Atwood's Body of Knowledge", Twentieth Century Literature, v.43, n.4 (1997), pp. 440-486.
C. Dreyfuss
  • "Margaret Atwood: 'Respectability Can Kill You Very Quickly.'" Progressive Volume 56 (March 1992): pages 30-33.
Chris Ferns.
  • "The Value/s of Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale and the Anti-Utopian Tradition." Dalhousie Review v 69 (Fall 1989) pp 373-382.
Lois Feuer.
  • "The Calculus of Love and Nightmare: The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction v 38 (Winter 1997): pp 83-95.
Peter Fitting.
  • "The Turn From Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home
Michael Foley.
  • "'Basic Victim Positions' and the Women in Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'", Atlantis v.15, n.2 (Spring 1990), pp. 50-58.
Kate Fullbrook.
  • "Margaret Atwood: Colonisation and Responsibility", pp. 171-193 in Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).

GHI

Ma Teresa Gilbert-Maceda.
  • "Metafora en lo alto de los cielos, metaforas al fondo de la calle: El uso de la metafora en Life Before Man, de Margaret Atwood", Epos: Revista de Filologia v. 6 (1990): pp.511-520.
Tracey Gillespie.
  • "Elements of the Gothic in the Novels of Margaret Atwood." MA thesis, University of Alberta, 1990.
A. Glover.
Barbara Godard.
  • "My (m)Other, My Self: Strategies for Subversion in Atwood and Hebert." Essays on Canadian Writing v. 26 (Summer 1983): pp. 13-44.
Ken Goodwin.
  • "Revolution as Bodily Fiction: Thea Astley and Margaret Atwood." Antipodes v.4, n.2 (Winter 1990): pp. 109-114.
Susan Gotsch-Thomson.
  • "The Integration of Gender into the Teaching of Classical Social Theory: Help from The Handmaid's Tale", Teaching Sociology, v.18 (Jan. 1990): pp. 69-73.
Ronald Granofsky.
  • "Fairy-Tale Morphology in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing", Mosaic, v.23, n.4 (Fall 1990): pp. 51-65.
Lesley Ann Hales.
  • "Sorcery to Spirituality in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, Month, v.23, n.9-10 (Sept. - Oct. 1990): pp. 382-387.
Stephanie Barbe Hammer.
  • "The World As It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale." Modern Language Studies v.20, n.2 (Spring 1990) pp 39-49.
Jim Herrick.
  • "A Humanist Warning: The Handmaid's Tale", New Humanist, v.106, n.4 (#105), Dec. 1990, p.13.
Coral Ann Howells.
  • "Science Fiction in the Feminine: The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood (1996) pp 127-147, 176-177.
Linda Hutcheons.
  • "From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret Atwood." in Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System, edited by Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. pp. 17-31.
Earl G. Ingersoll.
  • "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Echoes of Orwell." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v 5, n 4 (1993) pp 64-72.
  • "The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." in Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Allienne R. Becker. Westport: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 39-47.
  • "Survival in Margaret Atwood's Novel Oryx and Crake", Extrapolation v. 45, n.2 (2004), pp. 162-175.

JKL

Susan Jacob.
  • "Woman, Ideology, Resistance: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Third World Criticism." Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells. 1998. pp. 26-43.
Linda Kauffman.
  • "Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale."
    • In Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244.
    • In Courage and Tool: The Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship 1974-1989, ed. Joanne Glasgow and Angela Ingram. New York Modern Language Association of America, 1990, pp. 218-237.
David Ketterer.
  • "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154.
Sally L. Kitch.
  • "A Worm in the Apple: French Critical Theory and the Metaphor of the Child in the Work of Atwood and Broner," Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, v. 44, n.1-2 (1990), pp. 35-49.
Mario Klarer.
  • "Frau und Utopie: Funktion von Geschlecht in der literarischen Utopie mit exemplarischen Analysen anglo-amerikanischer Frauenromane." Ph.D. thesis, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck (Austria), 1990. (Eng.: "Women and Utopia: The Function of Gender in Literary Utopias with Illustrative Analyses of Anglo-American Women's Novels". Examines, inter alia, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Sally Miller Gearhart's Wanderground, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.
  • "The Gender of Orality and Literacy in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale". AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, v.15, n.2 (1990), pp. 151-170.
Sema Kormalý.
Barbara Korte.
  • "Margaret Atwood's Roman The Handmaid's Tale: Interpretationshinweise für eine Verwendung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II." Die Neuren Sprachen, v.89, n.3 (June 1990): pp. 224-242.
Jacques Leclaire.
  • "Feminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood." Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies v 21 (1986) t. 1 pp 299-308.

MNO

Amin Malak.
  • "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16.
Patrick D. Murphy
  • "Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v 17 (1990) pp 25-40. (on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale).
Reingard M. Nischik.
  • "Back to the Future: Margaret Atwood's Anti-Utopian Vision in The Handmaid's Tale." Englisch Amerikanische Studien v 1 (March 1987) pp 139-148.


PQR

Sally E. Parry.
  • "Fascists in America: Gender and Dystopia in It Can't Happen Here and The Handmaid's Tale", Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter (Spring 2000), v.8, n.2, pp. 3-4, 6, 8-13.
Constance Rooke.
  • "Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale: Offred's Name and 'The Arnolfini Marriage'." Fear of the Open Heart (1989) pp 175-196.
Mervyn Rothstein.
  • "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New York Times 12 February 1986: C11.
Roberta Rubenstein.
  • "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale" in Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms ed. by Kathryn Van Spanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, 1988, pp. 101-112.
  • "Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm." Journal of Canadian Studies v. 20 (Spring 1985), p. 120-135.

STU

Joan Slonczewski.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale." Kenyon Review v. ns8 (1986), pp. 120-4.
Karen F. Stein.
Fiona Tolan.
  • "Feminist Utopia and Questions of Liberty: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as Critique of Second Wave Feminism", Women: A Cultural Review (Spring 2005), v.16 n.1, pp.18-32.

VWXYZ

James M. Wall.
  • "The Human Spirit as Machine: Views of M. Atwood." The Christian Century v. 103 (December 3, 1986), p. 1083. (Discussion of The Handmaid's Tale)

Study guides

Paul Brians.
  • "Study Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."


Books

Sherrill Grace.
  • Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980.
Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir.
  • Editors. Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
Shannon Hengen.
  • Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1993.
Shannon Eileen Hengen and Ashley Thomson.
  • Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988-2005 (Scarecrow Press, 2007). "Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin. Rather than just including Atwood's books, this guide includes all of Atwood's works, including articles, short stories, letters, and individual poetry. Adaptations of Atwood's works are also included, as are some of her more public quotations. Secondary entries (i.e. interviews, scholarly resources, and reviews) are first sorted by type, and then arranged alphabetically by author, to allow greater ease of navigation."
Eleanora Rao.
  • Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
Barbara Hill Rigney.
  • Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, editors.
  • Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells.
  • Editors. Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. 1998.
Kathleen Wall.
  • The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.
Sharon R. Wilson.
  • "Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics." Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.

Special issues

Literature, Interpretation, Theory
  • "Margaret Atwood Issue." volume 6 number 3/4 (1995)
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