Happy Endings | Social Concerns
The winner of the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin (2000), Margaret Atwood has long been an icon of Canadian literature because of her groundbreaking, multilayered fiction, her poetry, and her critical writing. Her Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) remains a touchstone for scholars and students alike. Atwood's narratives and poems often focus on strong or victimized female characters, so she has been labeled (and early in her career was marginalized as) a feminist by many critics, even though she has denied having a single political agenda whenever...
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