... of contemporary literature and film; the key prose authors discussed are Octavia E. Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ernest Callenbach, and Kim Stanley Robinson. These texts are used to identify patterns of thought that have become habitual in the cultural moment of the Anthropocene, and they are explored as critiques...

...) In late 2009, just as we were putting together the call for papers for this special issue, the online science fiction community was deeply engaged in a favorite pastime: arguing with itself about the nature of science fiction. The spur this time was several notori- ous statements by Margaret Atwood...

... the place of angels, demons, fairies and saints, though it must be said that this last group is now making a comeback. —Margaret Atwood, “Why We Need Science Fiction” Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction...

... California in Parable of the Sower is very like the landscape of the pleeblands in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, except for the fact it is explicitly racialized in a way Atwood’s is not (the pleeblands are marked more by gendered violence in all its forms). The exact causes of the collapse...

... 2010 by Duke University Press 240  American Literature place of angels, demons, fairies and saints, though it must be said that this last group is now making a comeback. —Margaret Atwood, “Why We Need Science Fiction” Fantasy...

... Vietnam. Bachner shows us how the works of Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, and Marge Piercy all attempt to connect “more affluent white Americans to the reality of violence” in Vietnam through a variety of literary and poetic devices (71). Pyn- chon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966...

..., Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elena Ferrante, the list goes on—who are certainly more significant globally than Bukowski and Auster and whose own gatekeeping narratives would be interesting to consider. Instead, the codas of failed women writers unintentionally inscribe a gender dichotomy...

... fiction from comics like X-Men and Y: The Last Man to recent prose works by Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, and Richard Powers to filmic works like Orphan Black and Gattaca (1997). The “postsecular thinking” (30) produced by genomic knowledge seems to have a particular and unique resonance...

...: contemporary postcatastrophe science fiction novels (by Joanna Russ, Cormac McCarthy, and Margaret Atwood), television shows, and films. Exploring the treatment of “the child”—a figure that enfolds literal child characters, as well as technologies of and attitudes toward reproduction, fertility, and sterility...

..., the author seeks applications—and even enactions—of these “ensembles, constellations, and configurations” in postapocalyptic novels like the MaddAddam trilogy (Margaret Atwood, 2003–13), Blindness (José Saramago, 1995), the Parable series (Octavia E. Butler, 1993–98), and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006...

... Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000), Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods (2007), Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997), and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men (1998). Each of the five main chapters advances...

...” and interprets classic US writers (including Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman) and more contemporary non-US writers (including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Zakes Mda, and Rainer Maria Rilke). The readings are brief and too rarely exemplify the sweeping, easily universalized...

... and death, Berman is interested in comparing and contrasting the examples to then posit common characteristics, such as the surprising fact that end-of-life memoirs are not always elegiac. Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity. By Lorraine York. Toronto, ON: Univ. of Toronto Press...

... chapters on Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, Gina Wisker provides chapters that discuss women in a variety of postcolonial contexts, such as Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Carribean. Andinanatypicalmove,Wiskeralsoconsidersthewritingofwhitewriters, like Margaret Atwood, who are concerned with race...

.... $49.95. The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Ed. Jo Gill. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. xxi, 182 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. 240  American Literature The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood. Ed. Coral Ann Howells. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006...

... violence, eroticism, and sentimental excess’’ in relationship to postmodernism and feminism, ex- amininga range of different popular forms, as well as the fiction of Canadian writers Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood...

..., narrative and gen- der constructions, and genre. She examines seven novels: Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle, Iris Murdock’s The Sea, the Sea, Marilynne Robinson’s House- keeping, Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poison- wood Bible, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise...

.... Thomas Beebee’s ambitious study spans five centuries and two continents, covering writers as diverse as Ernesto Cardenal, Herman Melville, Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood, and Bob Dylan. This wide archive is linked by three main arguments. First, the book claims that a certain form...

.... Thomas Beebee’s ambitious study spans five centuries and two continents, covering writers as diverse as Ernesto Cardenal, Herman Melville, Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood, and Bob Dylan. This wide archive is linked by three main arguments. First, the book claims that a certain form...

.... Thomas Beebee’s ambitious study spans five centuries and two continents, covering writers as diverse as Ernesto Cardenal, Herman Melville, Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood, and Bob Dylan. This wide archive is linked by three main arguments. First, the book claims that a certain form...