Title: Worlds apart
Description: "Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy, Suzy McKee Charna's Holdfast series, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's tale are analyzed within the context of this this subgenre of "transgressive utopian dystopias." Analysis focuses particularly on how these works cover the interrelated categories of gender, race and class, along with their relationship to classic literary dualism and the dystopian narrative"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: American Fantasy fiction, American fiction, Canadian Fantasy fiction, Deviant behavior in literature, Dissenters in literature, Dualism in literature, Dystopias in literature, History, History and criticism, Imaginary societies in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Atwood, margaret eleanor, 1939-, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Canadian fiction, history and criticism
Places: Canada, United States
People: Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-), Suzette Haden Elgin, Suzy McKee Charnas
Time periods: 20th century