Strategies for Identity - The Fiction of Margaret Atwood (Paperback)

Questions of genre, identity and female subjectivity comprise the focus of this comprehensive study of the contemporary Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. It explores the literary sense of the plurality of genres and narrative styles present throughout Atwood's published fiction, with the purpose of analyzing the revisitation of historical and canonical forms. The narrative possibilities inherent to specific genres constitute the basis of an examination of representations of selfhood in the light of psychoanalytic theories of language and subjectivity that define the subject as heterogeneous and in constant process. Atwood's work proposes a gendered vision of subjectivity, wherein woman is characterized by a multiplicity of roles and subjective positions. Atwood's delineations of the marginality and polyvalency of her female characters are discussed in relation to sexual politics and gender difference. Of primary importance to the study is the texts' emphasis on the determination of sense reception by stereotypes, and on the epistemological questions raised by this in relation to language, the construction of reality, and interpretation.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Writing About Women Feminist Literary Studies, 9
Release date:	April 1994
Authors:	Eleonora Rao
Dimensions:	152 x 225 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-2216-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8204-2216-9
Barcode:	9780820422169

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