TY - JOUR
T1 - From Irony to Affiliation in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
AU - Wagner-lawlor, Jennifer A.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Since its publication in the mid-l980s, some readers have objected to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale on political grounds. One version of this objection asserts that the novel is not simply dystopian but antiutopian in that the novel’s ironized ending, the “Historical Notes,” shortcircuits any hope for political effectiveness that Offred’s open-ended conclusion might hold out.
AB - Since its publication in the mid-l980s, some readers have objected to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale on political grounds. One version of this objection asserts that the novel is not simply dystopian but antiutopian in that the novel’s ironized ending, the “Historical Notes,” shortcircuits any hope for political effectiveness that Offred’s open-ended conclusion might hold out.
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U2 - 10.1080/00111610309595328
DO - 10.1080/00111610309595328
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:64949172025
SN - 0011-1619
VL - 45
SP - 83
EP - 96
JO - Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
JF - Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction
IS - 1
ER -