Articles



Mapping and Dreaming Native Resistance in Green Grass, Running Water
Abstract: The dream map was as large as the table top, and had been folded tightly for many years. It was ...

Mapping the Canadian Mind: Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, 1842-1863
Abstract: A,MONGTHE EARLY TEXTS available to students of Cana- diana, the scientific reports penned by Sir William Edmond Logan, founding director ...

Mapping the Diasporic Self
Abstract: Begin at the beginning. That was my plan when I first started drafting the structure of my memoir. State one’s ...

Mapping the Door of No Return
Abstract: In her recent memoir A Map to the Door of No Return (), Dionne Brand makes a provocative contribution to ...

Margaret Atwood and Sexual Assault
Abstract: Margaret Atwood is routinely described as a feminist writer, whose novel The Handmaid’s Tale is a feminist dystopian classic. Her sequel The Testaments, appeared in 2019 to a rapturous reception as another feminist text. But from the fall of 2016 until 2018, Atwood was at the centre of a controversy in Canada that presented a much more complex picture of her as a feminist, particularly with regards to her view of sexual assault. This essay examines Atwood’s interviews, social media posts, essays and fiction to examine what her understanding and portrayal of sexual assault involves, and what kind of feminist she might be. The goal is to see whether or not representations of sexual assault in Atwood’s fiction can be understood as feminist in their portrayals of consent, of testimony and even how sexual assault itself is defined.

Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid Tale” and the Dystopian Tradition
Abstract: In The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault impressively articulates the complex, formidably paradoxical relationship between sexuality and power, arguing how ...

Margaret Atwood’s Modest Proposal: The Handmaid’s Tale
Abstract: IVIargaret Atwood begins her novel The Handmaid’s Tale with two dedications and three epigraphs: a passage from Genesis, a passage ...

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: The Terror of the Therapeutic
Abstract: In Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley distinguishes between the oppressive regime of George Orwell’s 1984, which maintains itself by ...

Margaret Fairley and the Canadian Literary Tradition
Abstract: In an article published in 1954, Canadian editor and critic Margaret Fairley (1885-1968) insisted that in contradiction to current opinion, ...

Margaret Laurence’s Somali Translations
Abstract: ΤLHIS SIX-LINE POEM is one of Margaret Laurence’s transla- tions of Somali love lyrics, included in A Tree for Poverty, ...