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The Heart Goes Last

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-08-04
ISBN 10 : 9780349007304
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (7 downloads)

Download The Heart Goes Last in PDF Full Online by Margaret Atwood and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

The Heart Goes Last

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-08-09
ISBN 10 : 9781101912362
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (912 downloads)

Download The Heart Goes Last in PDF Full Online by Margaret Atwood and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year ... if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months. Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart.

The Heart Goes Last

Author : Eleni Vryza
Publisher :
Release Date : 2019-12-31
ISBN 10 : 1653811366
Pages : 74 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (653 downloads)

Download The Heart Goes Last in PDF Full Online by Eleni Vryza and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel started as a response to an online competition Margaret Atwood posted on Wattpad before the publication of her book where she invited writers to elaborate on her secondary characters like Veronica and Con, Stan's brother who never liked his brother's girlfriend, Charmaine. The main plot elements of Stan and Charmaine losing their jobs after the economic crisis and living in their car which led them to join the Positron Project were given by Atwood. My novel took off with Veronica's life set about twenty years later after the events in Atwood's novel. This is why my book maintains the original plot on some level and transforms Veronica into a primary character. Hence the title of my first published book as tribute to Atwood's online competition before the publication of her book.

Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction

Author : Annika Gonnermann
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2021-04-19
ISBN 10 : 9783823394594
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (394 downloads)

Download Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction in PDF Full Online by Annika Gonnermann and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absent Rebels: Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction focuses on the relationship between literary dystopia, network power and neoliberalism, explaining why rebellion against a dystopian system is absent in so many contemporary dystopian novels. Also, this book helps readers understand modern power mechanisms and shows ways how to overcome them in our own daily lives.

Posthumanity in the Anthropocene

Author : Esther Muñoz-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-20
ISBN 10 : 9781000866278
Pages : 165 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (866 downloads)

Download Posthumanity in the Anthropocene in PDF Full Online by Esther Muñoz-González and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels—The Handmaid’s Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments—are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry. Posthumanist critical concerns try to dismantle anthropocentric notions of the human and defend the need for a closer relationship between humanity and the environment. Supported by the exemplification of the generic characteristics of the cli-fi genre, this book discusses the effects of climate change, at the individual level, and as a collective threat that can lead to a "world without us." Moreover, Margaret Atwood is herself the constant object of extensive academic interest and Posthuman theory is widely taught, researched, and explored in almost every intellectual field. This book is aimed at worldwide readers, not only those interested in Margaret Atwood’s oeuvre, but also those interested in the debate between critical posthumanism and transhumanism, together with the ethical implications of living in the Anthropocene era regarding our daily lives and practices. It will be especially attractive for academics: university teachers, postgraduates, researchers, and college students in general.

The Heart Goes Last

Author : Eleni Vryza
Publisher : Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-08-31
ISBN 10 : 9798681465409
Pages : 74 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The Heart Goes Last in PDF Full Online by Eleni Vryza and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continue reading about Veronica's adventures in the teaching world in the United States, including her jobs at charter schools, community colleges and private universities among others. Continue reading about Lucinda, the exiled journalist from China.A plethora of colorful characters from Vero's students and coworkers to sociopathic business managers and administrators.

All the Feels / Tous les sens

Author : Marie Carrière
Publisher : University of Alberta
Release Date : 2021-02-26
ISBN 10 : 9781772125221
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (125 downloads)

Download All the Feels / Tous les sens in PDF Full Online by Marie Carrière and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière, Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré, Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert, Jeanette den Toonder

Margaret Atwood and Social Justice

Author : Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-25
ISBN 10 : 9781527590991
Pages : 174 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (59 downloads)

Download Margaret Atwood and Social Justice in PDF Full Online by Theodore F. Sheckels and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood and Social Justice eventually presents a loose ideology evident in the author’s major works of prose fiction. It insists, however, that Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue, and that, therefore, this ideology evolves over her career, always secondary to her presenting stories and characters and, through them, ideas. Throughout her career, Atwood has been concerned about the social injustice experienced by women. After expressing concern for the plight of the environment in Surfacing and workers in Life Before Man, Atwood turned quite political in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid’s Tale, blending her concern for justice for women with criticism of present-day Third-World and future right-wing governments. Atwood, then, turned inward, looking at how those denied justice often do the same to others and turned to history, looking at injustice tied to social class. She later brought many of her concerns together in The Blind Assassin and, especially, the three books that comprise the MaddAddam trilogy. Later works such as The Heart Goes Last, Hag-Seed, and The Testaments add to the picture most fully articulated in The Blind Assassin, which looks back at the 1930s, and the MaddAddam books, which look ahead to a future marked by global warming, corporate oppression, and pandemic. As argued here, these later books strengthen her indictment of corporations, which oppress for the sake of profit, and offer her most straightforward recognition that race plays a major role in whether social justice is served or not.

Worlds Gone Awry

Author : John J. Han
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2018-08-16
ISBN 10 : 9781476671802
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (671 downloads)

Download Worlds Gone Awry in PDF Full Online by John J. Han and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

The Blind Assassin

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
ISBN 10 : 9780307428172
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (428 downloads)

Download The Blind Assassin in PDF Full Online by Margaret Atwood and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious death—a possible suicide—of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

Food in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction

Author : Katarina Labudova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-12
ISBN 10 : 9783031191688
Pages : 151 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (191 downloads)

Download Food in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction in PDF Full Online by Katarina Labudova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Margaret Atwood’s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels – The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last – Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural questions at play and the possible future scenarios which emerge for humanity’s survival in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic conditions. Labudova argues that food has special relevance in these novels and that characters’ hunger, limited food choices, culinary creativity and eating rituals are central to Atwood’s depictions of hostile environments. She also links food to hierarchy, dominance and oppression in Atwood’s novels, and foregrounds the problem of hunger, both psychological or physical, caused by pollution and loss of contact with the natural and authentic. The book shows how Atwood’s writing draws from a range of genres, including apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, utopia, fairy tale, myth, and thriller – and how food is an important, highly versatile motif linking these intertextual threads.

Gender Commodity

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-02-10
ISBN 10 : 9781501388040
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (388 downloads)

Download Gender Commodity in PDF Full Online by Robin Truth Goodman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender has become a commodity. Today's economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender can be bought and sold, produced as an object, and demands constant work. What makes the commodity object seem alien, mysterious, and even threatening, Marx tells us, is that the worker's social relations - his subjectivity - are taken away from him and stamped into the object which then appears to have a life of its own, disassociated and threatening. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social relation made into such an alienated object. In today's situation of radical insecurity, people are reaching out and identifying with objects - including symbolic ones - that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. Gender Commodity is an interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape around issues of gender, culture, and economy. It also asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally. As it criticizes gender-affirmative feminism for participating in the culture of the commodity, Gender Commodity also looks to feminism to imagine gender otherwise.

The Fiction of Margaret Atwood

Author : Fiona Tolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-22
ISBN 10 : 9781350336759
Pages : 145 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (336 downloads)

Download The Fiction of Margaret Atwood in PDF Full Online by Fiona Tolan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwood's work. Addressing all of the author's key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwood's work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.

Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America

Author : J. Jesse Ramírez
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2021-11-08
ISBN 10 : 9783823395027
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (395 downloads)

Download Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America in PDF Full Online by J. Jesse Ramírez and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all fundamental categories, work becomes ever more complex as we examine it more closely. The terms "work," "labor," "job," "employment," "occupation," "profession," "vocation," "task," "toil," "effort," "pursuit," and "calling" form a dense web of overlapping and contrasting meanings. Moreover, the analysis of work must contend with how histories of class struggle, gendered and sexual divisions of labor, racial hierarchies, and citizenship regimes have determined who counts as a worker and qualifies for the rights, protections, and social respect thereof. And yet waged work is only the tip of an enormous iceberg that feminist theorists call "socially reproductive labor"—the gendered, mostly unpaid, and hidden work of caring for, feeding, nursing, and teaching the next generation of workers. This collection of essays explores the richness of work as a linguistic, cultural, and historical concept and the conjunctures that are changing work and its worlds.

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04
ISBN 10 : 9781108486354
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (486 downloads)

Download The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood in PDF Full Online by Coral Ann Howells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised critical overview of Atwood's career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.

The Testaments

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2019-09-10
ISBN 10 : 9780385543798
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (543 downloads)

Download The Testaments in PDF Full Online by Margaret Atwood and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. “Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling Booker Prize-winning novel, now updated with additional content that explores the historical sources, ideas, and material that inspired Atwood. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways. With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

Morning in the Burned House

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2015-07-28
ISBN 10 : 9780547525754
Pages : 146 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (525 downloads)

Download Morning in the Burned House in PDF Full Online by Margaret Atwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, " setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word." Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.