Some hide, some march, some drink, some fib. And the women she sees are deformed by their own niceness, or given to mischief or dreaminess or carelessness. Men are in power or love or the dark or the doghouse or the fog. Atwood's writing suggests, it is women who must look at women in discrete and unsentimental ways. Work, the futurist novel "The Handmaid's Tale." To restore the humanity of their cultural representation, Ms. The cruel Toronto girlhoods depicted in her novels "Lady Oracle" and "Cat's Eye," replete with vague, insensitive mothers and sadistic girls, are in their way feminist dystopias akin to the totalitarian North America of her best-known
To corral, a motley and uneasy sisterhood that feminism is often hard going and hard won, sabotaged from within as well as without that in the war between the sexes there are collaborators as well as enemies, spies, refugees, spectatorsĪnd conscientious objectors - all this has been brilliantly dramatized in Ms. Atwood's novels (although for "women," one might as well read "a medium-sized variety of people in general"). Probably it is the subject of women that has most completely dominated Ms.
Atwood has gathered (not lumped) four very different women characters. And as with so many practitioners of identity politics, literary or otherwise, while one side of her banner defiantly exclaims "We Are!" the other side,Įqually defiant, admonishes "Don't Lump Us." In "The Robber Bride," Ms. OctoEvery Wife's Nightmare By LORRIE MOOREĪrgaret Atwood has always possessed a tribal bent: in both her fiction and her nonfiction she has described and transcribed the ceremonies andĮxperience of being a woman, or a Canadian, or a writer - or all three.
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