Surfacing by Margaret Atwood - Book Discussion

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Surfacing is a novel about an unnamed narrator returning to her hometown in the wilderness of North Quebec, searching for her father who had vanished some time ago. Its latter section is full of evocative, difficult-to-parse imagery that make the read well worth it.
Articles referenced:
Bhalla, A, Ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Burridge, T, Surfacing by Margaret Atwood: A study in borderlines
Campbell, J.P., The Woman as Hero in Margaret Atwood's "Surfacing"
Fiamengo, J, Postcolonial Guilt in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Kapuscinski, K, Negotiating the Nation: The Reproduction and Reconstruction of the National Imaginary in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Nicolaescu, C, The voice of subaltern in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: An anticolonialist approach to the novel
Wrethed, J, “I am a place”: Aletheia as aesthetic and political resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
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[@addie8728]

i got chills from the quote about being a “place”

[@cam20118]

Great analysis!

[@nawalyusuf2891]

My research is about this topic too and I have first research exam tomorrow. Wish me luck 🍀

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Hope you did well. lol

[@argentbeard5583]

Just finished reading it. It struck me as a story told by an unreliable narrator, who has mental health issues. Perhaps paranoid schizophrenia. When she's more lucid earlier in the story, she claims to have been married and had a child, now in her ex-husband's care. Later, when she's mentally unwell, she claims to have been in a relationship with a married man, who forced her to have an abortion. So, what is the truth? The lucid or the deranged admission? At the end, I felt some foreboding about Joe and their unborn baby's future.