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“Who Knows What We’d Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?” : The Bible and Margaret Atwood / ed. by Rhiannon Graybill, Peter Sabo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical Intersections ; VolumePublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (437 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463241353
  • 9781463241360
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9199.3.A8
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Works by Margaret Atwood -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Getting our Hands on It -- PART I. SURFACING -- 1. “Always a potent object”?: The Shifting Role of the Bible in Margaret Atwood’s Novels -- 2. Margaret Atwood’s Survival as Prophetic Canadian Nation- Building -- 3. The Handmaid’s Tale, the Bible, and the Canadian Residential School System: A Dystopian Warning -- PART II. IN OTHER WORLDS -- 4. Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Bibles: “First the Bad Things, Then the Story” -- 5. Margaret Atwood’s Primordial Myth -- 6. Eschatologically Expecting: Reading Apocalyptic Childbirth Through Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale -- PART III. DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN -- 7. “You Should Not Take Baths Outside in the Garden”: Alias Grace, the Male Gaze, and Susanna and the Elders -- 8. Writing Re-Vision: On Margaret Atwood’s Rewriting of Canon as Poststructuralist Midrash -- 9. The Snake, The Poet: Art and Duplicity in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry and the Hebrew Bible -- PART IV. SCALES AND TAILS -- 10. Queer Animalities in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and the Hebrew Bible -- 11. How To Live At the End of the World: The Bible and Theology in the Climate Dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler -- 12. Surfacing in the Wild: The Heroine’s Journey Through the Lens of the Biblical Midbar -- PART V. NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD -- 13. Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic Dissociations in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the Gospel of John -- 14. Mirrors of Grace: Undoing Paul in Atwood’s Alias Grace -- 15. The LongPen, Future Library, and Biblical Prophecy: Thinking Writing with Margaret Atwood -- Arcane Energy: An Afterword on the Bible and The Testaments
Summary: In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and "ed by children, atheists, and murderers alike—the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. This volume, the first of its kind, assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible. The essays span the breadth of Atwood’s work, including The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam), poetry, essays, and more. Taking as a model Atwood’s own playful dialogues with the Bible, the contributors employ a variety of theoretical approaches (feminist, deconstructionist, animal theory, affect theory, and so on) to explore both the ancient and modern corpus of texts in dialogue with each other. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Bible is famously used as a text that structures an entire society—though for precisely this reason it is a dangerous text that must be controlled by the elite, kept out of the hands of those who may turn it into an “incendiary device.” This volume explores what happens when Atwood, and we as readers, take the Bible into our own hands.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Works by Margaret Atwood -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Getting our Hands on It -- PART I. SURFACING -- 1. “Always a potent object”?: The Shifting Role of the Bible in Margaret Atwood’s Novels -- 2. Margaret Atwood’s Survival as Prophetic Canadian Nation- Building -- 3. The Handmaid’s Tale, the Bible, and the Canadian Residential School System: A Dystopian Warning -- PART II. IN OTHER WORLDS -- 4. Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Bibles: “First the Bad Things, Then the Story” -- 5. Margaret Atwood’s Primordial Myth -- 6. Eschatologically Expecting: Reading Apocalyptic Childbirth Through Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale -- PART III. DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN -- 7. “You Should Not Take Baths Outside in the Garden”: Alias Grace, the Male Gaze, and Susanna and the Elders -- 8. Writing Re-Vision: On Margaret Atwood’s Rewriting of Canon as Poststructuralist Midrash -- 9. The Snake, The Poet: Art and Duplicity in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry and the Hebrew Bible -- PART IV. SCALES AND TAILS -- 10. Queer Animalities in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and the Hebrew Bible -- 11. How To Live At the End of the World: The Bible and Theology in the Climate Dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler -- 12. Surfacing in the Wild: The Heroine’s Journey Through the Lens of the Biblical Midbar -- PART V. NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD -- 13. Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic Dissociations in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the Gospel of John -- 14. Mirrors of Grace: Undoing Paul in Atwood’s Alias Grace -- 15. The LongPen, Future Library, and Biblical Prophecy: Thinking Writing with Margaret Atwood -- Arcane Energy: An Afterword on the Bible and The Testaments

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In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and "ed by children, atheists, and murderers alike—the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. This volume, the first of its kind, assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible. The essays span the breadth of Atwood’s work, including The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam), poetry, essays, and more. Taking as a model Atwood’s own playful dialogues with the Bible, the contributors employ a variety of theoretical approaches (feminist, deconstructionist, animal theory, affect theory, and so on) to explore both the ancient and modern corpus of texts in dialogue with each other. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Bible is famously used as a text that structures an entire society—though for precisely this reason it is a dangerous text that must be controlled by the elite, kept out of the hands of those who may turn it into an “incendiary device.” This volume explores what happens when Atwood, and we as readers, take the Bible into our own hands.

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