Vol 9 (2015)
Margaret Atwood Studies Journal
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editor
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Letter from the Editor
Karma Waltonen
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Editorial Board
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Editorial Board
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Articles
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Knowledge and Secrecy in Alias Grace
Abbie Lahmers
The winning undergraduate essay in the 2014 contest.
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Archival Embodiment in The Handmaid’s Tale
Joseph Hurtgen
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Abstract: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale stresses how the archive has been used by Western patriarchy to force women to embody a servant role, existing only to satisfy male desire. Such a vision is not inclusive of the perspectives and voices of women. The archive, as I discuss it, consists of culturally produced ideas replicated across populations that inform social interaction. Archival embodiment occurs when these culturally produced ideas are written on the body. Archival embodiment occurs away from the vault and its associated records. As a result of archival embodiment, the archival record imposes the principles and narratives of controlling nodes of power on individuals.
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Annotated Bibliography
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Annual Atwood Bibliography 2014
Ashley Thomson, Shoshannah Ganz
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Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society
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Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society
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Margaret Atwood Studies Links