TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gina Wisker
PY  - 2026
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2631-8725
TI  - Margaret Atwood
T2  - A New Companion
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1408260
N2  - For several decades Margaret Atwood has been a consistent, insightful, wry, concerned and utterly engaged voice for our varying times. Margaret Atwood: A New Companion offers new interpretations of a wide range of Atwood’s writing, including lesser discussed works like her children’s books, poetry and music. The book addresses crucial contemporary political and cultural issues, including climate change, sustainability, eco-diversity, Covid-19, Trump’s policies, surveillance, identity, gender and power. The collection shares new insights into the ever topical Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale and the legacies in The Testaments. It explores and enacts themes of mourning and loss and an exuberant engagement with life in her poetry as well as her activist writing on eco-diversity and survival.   The book affirms Margaret Atwood as a fount of powerful, insightful and practical knowledge about the importance of language and story in action and of carefully and deliberately choosing, speaking and sharing insights, arguments and alternative ways of imagining. A skilled weaver of words, Atwood enacts the magic of writing, speaking truth to power.
KW  - margaret, atwood, companion
LA  - English
ER  -