Margaret Atwood’s dystopian visions: The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 161-175

  Howells, Coral Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521839661.012     Document Type: Chapter

References (20)

1. Margaret Atwood, “Writing Utopia,” Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing, 1970-2005 (London: Virago, 2005), pp. 85-94.
2. Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (London: Virago, 1994), p. 4.
3. Tom Moylan, Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000), p. 136.
4. Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (London: Virago, 2004), p. 267.
5. “Writing Oryx and Crake” in Curious Pursuits, pp. 321 -23.
6. Lee Briscoe Thompson, Scarlet Letters: “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Toronto: ECW Press, 1997), p. 36.
7. Earl G. Ingersoll, ed., Margaret Atwood: Conversations (London: Virago, 1992), p. 223.
8. Bill McKibben, Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature (London: Bloomsbury, 2004), pp. 43-44.
9. Anthony Griffiths, “Genetics according to Oryx and Crake,” Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): pp. 192-95.
10. Margaret Reynolds, “Interview with Margaret Atwood,” Margaret Atwood: The Essential Guide, eds. M. Reynolds and J. Noakes (London: Vintage, 2002), pp. 11-25.
11. Noah Richler, “Atwood’s Ground Zero,” Saturday Post, 26 April 2003: p. BK4.
12. Helen Merrick, “Gender in Science Fiction,” The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, eds. Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 241-52.
13. Rosi Braidotti, “Monsters, Mothers and Machines,” Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 75-94.
14. Helene Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, eds. Robyn R. Warhol and Diana Price Herndl (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991), pp. 334-49.
15. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 146.
16. Marta Dvorak, ““What’s in a Name?’ Readers as Both Pawns and Partners, or Margaret Atwood’s Strategy of Control,” Margaret Atwood: “The Handmaid’s Tale”/“Le Conte de la servante”: The Power Game, eds. J-M. Lacroix and J. Leclaire (Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998), pp. 79-97.
17. C. A. Howells, Margaret Atwood (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 137-41.
18. J. Brooks Bouson, ““It’s Game Over Forever’: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.3 (2004): pp. 139-56.
19. Margaret Atwood, “Arguing Against Ice Cream: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, by Bill McKibben,” Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004 (Toronto: Anansi, 2004), pp. 33-50.
20. Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead (London: Virago, 2003), p. 115.