Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-229) and index.
Contents:
The quest for identity: Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature (1972), Surfacing (1972) -- Constraining the feminine: The edible woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976) -- Explorations, Bones and murders: the short stories (1977-95): Early short stories (1977-95): Early short stories (1977), Dancing girls (1977), True stories (1981), Murder in the dark (1983), Bluebeard's egg (1983), Wilderness tips (1991), Good bones, Bones and murder (1995) -- Violence, trauma and history: Life before man (1979), Bodily harm (1981) -- The oppressive future: The handmaid's tale (1985) -- Feminist Gothic: Cat's eye (1988), The robber bride (1993) -- No nearer the truth: versions of fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996) -- Rewriting history and myth: The blind assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005) -- Writers, readers, constructions of the real and the future: Oryx and crake (2003) -- Re-telling old tales: Moral disorder (2006), The tent (2006) -- The end of the world? The year of the flood (2009) -- Conclusion.
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