Criticism Flashcards
superlative exercise…
in science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story - Angela Carter
exposure of…
power politics at its most basic
the writer retains three attributes…
that power - mad regimes cannot tolerate: a human imagination, the power to communicate and hope - Atwood
sappy stand - in…
for Winston Smith - Barbara Ehrenreich
Atwood’s feminist concerns…
are plain here, but so too are her concerns for basic human rights - Coral Howell
the monthly rape synthesises…
the institutionalised humiliation, objectification, and ownership of women in Gilead - Cavalcanti
Psychoanalytical
Coping through flashbacks.
Post - colonial
undermined minority
colonised USA has separated women in to groups (like some colonisers do)
Power becomes oppressive
Marxist
Struggle between classes
women commodified
women treated as slaves
‘proletariat’ fight back
muted…
feminist polemic - Ketterer
The only truly subversive…
force appears to be love - Ehrenreich
genius is in her inversion…
of the familiar into the horrific
