The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Book Discussion
Thanks for watching my video on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Let me know what you thought of the book in the comments below, though please note I haven't yet read The Testaments so I'll be avoiding spoilers ;)
Articles Referenced:
Dodson, D, 'We lived in the blank white spaces': Rewriting the Paradigm of Denial in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Filipczak, D, Is there no balm in Gilead? – Biblical intertext in The Handmaid’s Tale
Hansot, E, Selves, Survival, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale
Ketterer, D, Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale": A Contextual Dystopia ("La servante carlate" de Margaret Atwood: une dystopie contextuelle)
Sethna, C, “Not an instruction manual”: Environmental degradation, racial erasure, and the politics of abortion in The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Stillman, P, & Johnson, A, Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro & Plot Summary
06:00 Theme 1: Gender & Identity
09:28 Theme 2: Ecofeminism
10:39 Theme 3: The Historical Notes & Narrative
15:32 Conclusion
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