Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood - Rilegato

Bouson, J. Brooks

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ISBN 10: 0870238450 ISBN 13: 9780870238451

Casa editrice: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1993

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Brutal Choreographies investigates the novels of Margaret Atwood, focusing on their psychological and political concerns. Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic theory, J. Brooks Bouson examines Atwood's recurring self, family, and romantic dramas, her novelistic subversion of romance ideology, and her critique of gender and power politics. Bouson also considers the oppositional strategies used in Atwood's novels: their punitive plotting and retaliatory rhetoric, their enactments of female revenge fantasies, and their self-conscious manipulation and sabotage of romance and other traditional plot lines and conventions. From the proto-feminism of ""The Edible Woman"" the cultural feminism of ""Surfacing"" and the examination of the perils of Gothic thinking in ""Lady Oracle"" to the domestic and sexual warfare of ""Life Before Man"", the anti-feminist backlash terrors of ""Bodily Harm"" and ""The Handmaid's Tale"" and the power politics of female relationships in ""Cat's Eye"", Atwood's women-centred fiction has strong oppositional appeal. Because Atwood does not shun what she calls the ""story of the disaster which is the world"" her tales are often brutal, portraying female victimisation at the hands of the husband or male lover, the mother, or the femle friend. But if the Atwood novel has the power to disturb, compel and at times brutalise its reader, it is also carefully choreographed, using form and design to contain and control the female fears, anxieties, and anger that drive the narrative.

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• Editore: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0870238450
• ISBN 13: 9780870238451
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 204