Maternality and Narrative Strategies in the Novels of Margaret Atwood

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  • Helen Buss University of Calgary

Abstract

A continuing and growing concern with questions of maternality and the ethics of mothering is present in Margaret Atwood's novels and can be traced in the narrative strategies used by Atwood. Thus, the aesthetic choices made in constructing each fiction is integrally involved with the ethical comment Atwood is making. This emerges in its most realized form i n the political and artistic positions taken in The Handmaid's Tale.

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1989-10-10

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Original Research