Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics

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Dunja M. Mohr, University of Erfurt, Germany, is vice president of the Margaret Atwood Society and the Society's European Representative. She acts as Head of the Women, Gender, and Diversity Studies Section of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries and serves on the Advisory Boards of Utopian Studies and Margaret Atwood Studies. Her main research areas are 20th and 21st century English and Canadian Literature, particularly speculative, dystopian/utopian, and Anthropocene fiction, posthumanism, post-9/11, monster studies, and new materialism. Together with Kirsten Sandrock she organized the international conference Artpolitical: Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics in 2021 and co-edited a special issue on Politics and Literature in Margaret Atwood's Oeuvre for Margaret Atwood Studies (2024). She is the author of the award-winning monograph Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias and has (co-)edited several volumes, among them Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English, 9/11 as Catalyst special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (with Sylvia Mayer), and Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity (with Birgit Däwes). Currently, she is getting a monograph on Frankenstein Adaptations ready for an international publisher.

Kirsten Sandrock holds the Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 (Edinburgh UP, 2021) and Gender and Region: Maritime Fiction in English by Canadian Women, 1976-2005 (Wissner, 2009) as well as of numerous articles on Shakespeare and early modern literature, gender studies, Canadian literature, travel writing, Scottish Studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. In 20025, she has received the Government of Canada Award. She is currently vice president of the German Shakespeare Society and has co-edited, with Lukas Lammers, the Shakespeare Seminar Online from 2016-2023. Together with Dunja M. Mohr, she organized the international conference Artpolitical: Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics in 2021 and co-edited a special issue Politics and Literature in Margaret Atwood's Oeuvre for Margaret Atwood Studies (2024).

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This collection recognizes prominent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's impact as a highly political writer whose literary oeuvre engages with burning contemporary political questions on the personal, imaginative, scientific, and material level.

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Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics: The Artpolitical. An Introduction

DUNJA M. MOHR AND KIRSTEN SANDROCK

1 Margaret Atwood, Writing in the Carnivalesque Spirit, Against Oppression

THEODORE F. SHECKELS

2 The Human and the Posthuman: Precarious Lives in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last

SHRADDHA A. SINGH

3 Atwood's Graphic Novels: (Aesthetic) Form and (Political) Function of the Angel Catbird Trilogy and the War Bears Series

BRIGITTE JOHANNA GLASER

4 Adaptation as 'Artpolitical' Remediation: From The Handmaid's Tale to The Testaments and Back

ANNIKA MCPHERSON

5 We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print: Storytelling and the Politics of In/Visibility and In/Audibility in The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

ALESSANDRA BOLLER

6 In_Visibilising the Gendered History of Slavery: Fertility, Oppression, and the (Black) Female Body in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale

SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI

7 Resilience and Environmental Futurity in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy

SYLVIA MAYER

8 Which Oryx? A Reading of Intersectionality, Race, and Class Politics through the Narrative Male Gaze

KATHERINE PARSONS

9 Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: The Politics and Aesthetics of Writing the Nation

ANCA-RALUCA RADU

10 To see clearly and without flinching: Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

LAUREN RULE MAXWELL

11 Afterword: Margaret Atwood's Distribution of the Sensible

CRISPIN SARTWELL