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'This diverse collection, edited by Gina Wisker, offers a range of fresh perspectives on Margaret Atwood, one of today's most important authors. Spanning feminism, ecology, posthumanism, storytelling and more, it provides new analysis into her work from her early novels to recent poetry, revealing Atwood's enduring power to challenge, inspire, and reimagine identity and survival. It is essential reading for Atwood scholars and students alike.' - Dr Claire O'Callaghan, Loughborough University
'This companion to Atwood's writing is an impressively wide-ranging and theoretically ambitious addition to Atwood scholarship. It engages with key texts in her oeuvre while also discussing her libretti, poetry, short stories and children's books from a variety of critical perspectives: including biotechnologies, eco-cultural, dystopian and post-humanist approaches. In attending so fully to the ethical imperatives animating Atwood's work, the collection also provides a fascinating genealogy of feminist engagements over the past several decades.' - Dr Denise deCaires Narain, Emeritus Reader, University of Sussex
'A comprehensive, intellectually provocative and accessible collection. Wisker's helpful introduction thoughtfully addresses the evolution of Atwood's work as both literature and social commentary. The essays cover everything from music, fairy tales and feminism in Atwood's work and reveal her as a groundbreaking writer across genres and modes. Thorough and engaging scholarship.' - Dr Regina Hansen, Boston University
For several decades Margaret Atwood has been a consistent, insightful, wry, concerned and utterly engaged voice for our varying times. Margaret Atwood: A New Companion offers new interpretations of a wide range of Atwood's writing, including lesser discussed works like her children's books, poetry and music. The book addresses crucial contemporary political and cultural issues, including climate change, sustainability, eco-diversity, Covid-19, Trump's policies, surveillance, identity, gender and power. The collection shares new insights into the ever topical Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale and the legacies in The Testaments. It explores and enacts themes of mourning and loss and an exuberant engagement with life in her poetry as well as her activist writing on eco-diversity and survival.
The book affirms Margaret Atwood as a fount of powerful, insightful and practical knowledge about the importance of language and story in action and of carefully and deliberately choosing, speaking and sharing insights, arguments and alternative ways of imagining. A skilled weaver of words, Atwood enacts the magic of writing, speaking truth to power.
Contents
Introduction Gina Wisker
Part I Early Work: The Edible Woman and Alias Grace
Lorna Piatti Farnell
'You look delicious': Consumerist Media, Gender Politics and Alimentary Disturbances in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman
Shannon Scott
Channelling Women's Rage for Audiences in the Twenty-First Century
Part II The Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam Trilogy
Gina Wisker
Salvaging Revisited: Margaret Atwood's Feminist Eco-Gothic Challenges to the Anthropocene and her Writing on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge
Laura-Jane Devanny
Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Literal Posthuman: Atwood's Paradice Project
Sarah Wagstaffe
Memory, Mourning and Nostalgia in Oryx and Crake
Sarah Worgan
Surplus Life in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Part III The Testaments
Coral Ann Howells
How Gilead Fell: An Ecocultural Reading of The Testaments
Blanka Grzegorczyk
Childhood Rites and Rights in The Testaments
Sally McLuckie
Embracing the Witch: The Influence of Spiritual Feminism in Aunt Lydia's Transformation from Witch to Goddess
Jade Hinchliffe
Reading Atwood's Feminist Dystopian Fiction Alongside Feminist Surveillance Studie's
Part IV Later and Diverse Work: Hag-Seed, Music, Illustrated Texts and Poetry
Jessica Gildersleeve and Laurie Johnson
The Abuses of Shakespeare: Hag-Seed
Robin Elliott
Margaret Atwood and Music
Dunja M. Mohr
Refusing the Griselda Game: Fairy Tale Politics in Margaret Atwood's "Impatient Griselda"
Fiona Tolan
Feminist Killjoys: Happiness, Feminism and Troublemaking in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
Helene Staveley
Empowering the Inner Nitwit: Margaret Atwood for Kids
Gina Wisker
'Poetry is the past /that breaks out in our hearts': Loss, Revision, Diversity and Survival in Dearly (2022) and Morning in the Burned House (1995)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
