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Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Examining Margaret Atwood's work in the context of the complex
history of the Bildungsroman, Ellen McWilliams explores how the
genre has been appropriated by women writers in the second half of
the twentieth century. She demonstrates that Atwood's early work -
her own 'coming of age' fiction, including unpublished works as
well as The Edible Woman, Surfacing, and Lady Oracle - both engages
with and works against the paradigms of identity which are
traditionally associated with the genre. Making extensive use of
unpublished manuscripts in the Atwood Collection at the University
of Toronto, McWilliams uncovers influences that shaped Atwood's
fashioning of identity in her early novels, paying particular
attention to Atwood's preoccupation with survival as a key symbol
of Canadian literature, culture, and identity. She also considers
the genre's afterlife on display in Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride,
Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Moral Disorder, in which the
formulations of selfhood and identity in Atwood's early fiction are
revisited and developed. Atwood emerges as a writer who
self-consciously invokes and then undercuts the traditions of the
Bildungsroman, a turn that may be read as a means of at once
interrogating and perpetuating the form. McWilliams's book furthers
our understanding of subjectivity in Atwood's fiction and
contributes to ongoing conversations about the role gender and
cultural contexts play in reframing generic boundaries.
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