Wilderness Tips (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Canada
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Mythology or myths, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Gender roles, Women, Survivalism, Stereotypes, Camping, campers, or campgrounds
- Locales: Canada
Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood’s second volume of short stories, resembles Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories (1987) in its contemporary urban settings, its emphasis on the sexual power politics of human relationships, and its linkages between seemingly disparate events. The ten stories contain familiar Atwood concerns (consumerism, creeping Americanism), themes (survival, sexual exploitation, loss, and discovery), and motifs (landscapes, pregnancy, and abortion); but in their emphasis on survival and how characters “create” or write their stories, they seem...
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