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Who tried to justify the atrocities of Stalinism with the omelette proverb?

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Walter Duranty

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Liberation Theology

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An influential movement within the Roman Catholic Church in 1980s- criticised by conservatives for essentially ‘baptising’ Marxist ideology

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Who states that Offred is Gilead’s sacrificial lamb?

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Maria Christou

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Who discusses that parallels between Gilead and Nazi Germany?

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Maria Christou

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Who discusses the ominous nature of trying to have the last word?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Who argues that the biblical fundamentalism of Gilead poses crucial questions about the interpretative use of literary texts?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Who compares the hierarchy in Gilead to the British empire?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who believes that the eaten is also the eater?

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Maria Christou

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Who discusses the preliminary matter that establishes a frame through which we read the novel?

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Karen F. Stein

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Who discusses Canadian national identity?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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Who states that some of the earliest Canadian literature was by women?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who discusses the way in which the Protestant Reformation removed the feminine elements of Roman Catholicism?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who argues that the issue of language and power has always been crucial in the construction of dystopias?

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Coral Ann Howells

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What does Stein suggest the focus on the consumption of the flesh-like bread calls for an association with?

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The Handmaids with the Agnus Dei of the New Testament, the Lamb of God that is (cannibalistically) consumed at the Eucharist

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Who compares Offred’s reconstructed narrative to the sexual dualities of Gilead?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Who argues that dystopias and utopias have a lot in common?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who says that the allegedly Christian society turns everyone into a sinner?

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Barbe Hammer

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Who believes that the Bible functions as both a tool of oppression and a tool of subversion in the novel?

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Maria Christou

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Who states that irony is a chief feature of the novel?

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Karen F. Stein

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What does the King James Bible describe biblical holocausts as being?

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‘Sweet savour’ unto the Lord

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Which critic questions the way in which scholars contribute to the dehumanisation of society?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Which book can be seen as a sequel to THMT?

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Oryx and Crake; 2003

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Who also associates eating with politics, suggesting they both allow violence which is non-punishable?

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Jacques Derrida

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Who believes that it is the women in positions of power in Gilead who make the system unpleasant for other women?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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When did the Three Mile Island incident happen?

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March 28, 1979

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when was Thatcher in power?

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1979-90

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Who believes that there a three language systems present in the novel?

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Debrah Raske

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Who argues that the insatiable consumerist society is gulping humans metaphorically?

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Aneesa Mushtaq

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What are the features of postmodernism?

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Questioning definitions; questioning truths; self-consciousness; fractured narrative; end of originality; ‘subjective’ narrative style

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In the Bible, when are animals sacrificed in the place of humans?

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Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22:13)

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Who believes that the juxtaposed dedications show the ironic relations between history and historians?

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Sandra Tomc

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Who discusses ‘Oryx and Crake’ and genetic engineering as a form of cannibalism?

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Aneesa Mushtaq

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Who discusses the way in which man has to metaphorically cannibalise the whole system in order to create new things?

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Aneesa Mushtaq

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Who talks about the dedications and Atwood’s obsession with cannibalism?

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Karen F. Stein

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Which critic says that dystopia represents choice for the reader, and therefore hope?

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Coral Ann Howells

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When did Atwood publish ‘Edible Woman’?

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1969

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Who argues that Atwood borrows the standard form of the dystopia?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Who argues that women use rhetoric to enforce oppression of other people?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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Who discusses the way in which there is a rich portrait of the African American female slave in the novel?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Where did the Three Mile Island incident occur?

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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

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When was the Equal Pay Act in the UK?

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1970

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When was the Pregnancy Discrimination Act?

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1978

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Who argues that Canada is too diverse to become Gilead?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who argues that the distinction between animals and humans has been marred?

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Aneesa Mushtaq

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When did Atwood make her comment about politics and eating?

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In her address on Amnesty International, published in a 1982 collection of essays

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Which critic discusses speculative fiction?

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Arnold E. Davidson

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Which critic discusses the religious hypocrisy of Gilead?

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Lucy M. Freibert

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Who discusses the way in which Atwood’s choice of a female narrator turns the traditionally masculine dystopian genre upside down?

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Coral Ann Howells

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Who believes that Atwood’s storytelling has a double purpose?

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Coral Ann Howells

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What was surprising about President Ford’s First Lady?

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Betty Ford was pro-choice, dubbed ‘No Lady’ by conservatives, a moderate Republican herself

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When was the Pregnancy Discrimination Act?

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1978

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Which other biblical sacrificial lamb is associated with THMT?

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Passover

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Who argues that women are not homogenuous?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who comments on the seating arrangement at the birth?

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Glenn Deer

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Who discusses Auto-Cannibalism?

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Maria Christou

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What film inspired Atwood’s reference to the red?

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The Red Shoes; 1948

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Who believes that politics is presented as a metonymy of eating?

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Maria Christou

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Who believes that Offred and Mary Webster escape from the traditional plots scripted for women because they do not fit these “patterns of inquiry”?

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Karen F. Stein

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Who states that Offred’s account dispels any singular definition of ‘woman’?

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Coral Ann Howells

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When did second-wave feminism first begin?

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Early 1960s

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Who argues that Atwood powerfully critiques the rhetoric of sacrifice within politics?

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Maria Christou

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Who believes that Offred’s gendered body has been written into the body of the text?

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Coral Ann Howells

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Who does Atwood dedicate the novel to?

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Mary Webster; Perry Miller

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Who describes that pre-Gilead was not an ‘ideal freedom state’?

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Fredrik Pettersson

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Who discusses ‘The Edible Woman’ and ‘Surfacing’?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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Who compares Gileadean roles to a caste system?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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Who believes that the States are more extreme in everything?

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Margaret Atwood

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Who believes that the academic discourse satirises economic pretension?

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Karen F. Stein

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Who discusses apartheid in THMT?

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Danita J. Dodson

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Who discusses the diet of the Handmaids?

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Maria Christou

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When did Atwood say THMT was “a tale that warns of the possible rise of totalitarianism in the US through right-wing Christian fundamentalism”?

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1986

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Who argues that Atwood even manages to twist the masculine genre of dystopia into a feminine romance plot?

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Coral Ann Howells

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Who discusses the way in which eating is metaphorically related to power?

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Aneesa Mushtaq

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when was Thatcher in power?

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1979-90

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Who believes that Atwood chose satire to critique second-wave feminism as effectively as possible?

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Alanna A. Callaway

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