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GENDER POLITICS IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S BOOK
Pushpa Sharma
Page No. : 25-33
ABSTRACT
“Though Poet, Clever Critic, Brilliant Novelist, Feminist, Nationalist our chief literacy heroine MARGARET ATWOOD A Superb Writer.”
"MARGARET ATWOOD" [1939] is one of the most well-known and gifted female writers of postmodern Canadian fiction. One must read Surfacing [1972] multiple times to obtain the true meaning, as it is a very complicated work that lends itself to several interpretations. The work focuses on themes of feminism and introspection. The issues explored in Surfacing include friction between personal and social awareness and between personal and national awareness. You can read about ’Feminism’ and the plight of women in her books. As a feminist author, she is interested in writing about women’s struggles and the need to find a sense of belonging. She hopes that by writing about it, she may draw attention to and illustrate the tremendous gulf that exists between men and women. Her protagonist, in her newly published work, makes some attempts at assertiveness. At its core, the novel in question is about the author coming to terms with this knowledge.
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