Margaret Atwood on The Robber Bride - The John Adams Institute

On March 29, 1994, Margaret Atwood visited The John Adams Institute to talk about her latest novel The Robber Bride. Nelleke Noordervliet moderated the evening.
Margaret Atwood has often been called “the ambassador of Canadian literature”. In addition to her seven novels including best-sellers like The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’es Eye, she has published numerous volumes of poetry and short stories, two children’s books and works of literary criticism. Much of her energy has been devoted to promoting Canadian literature, and she has worked hard to free it from the cultural inferioriy context often found in former colonies. In a style that combines keen but apparently distant observation with wry humor, Atwood’s fiction has tackled such topics as gender roles, violence and power relationships. Her work has been taken up by feminists, particularly after the publication of Handmaid’s Tale, a horrific twenty-first century nightmare of female repression.

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It’s amazing how relevant everything she talks about still is.

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Very highbrow especially Q and A. Great lecture.