Essays about the book. Includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography.
Introduction / Harold Bloom Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale and the dystopian tradition / Amin Malak Nature and nurture in dystopia: The handmaid's tale / Roberta Rubenstein "Trust me": reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Madonne Miner The misogyny of patriarchal culture in The handmaid's tale / J. Brooks Bouson Off the path to Grandma's house in The handmaid's tale / Sharon Rose Wilson "The missionary position": feminism and nationalism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Sandra Tomc The handmaid's tale: dystopia and the paradoxes of power / Glenn Deer Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: resistance through narrating / Hilde Staels Margaret Atwood's modest proposal: The handmaid's tale / Karen Stein What is real/reel? Margaret Atwood's "rearrangement of shapes on a flat surface," or narrative as collage / Marta Dvorak The handmaid's tale: "historical notes" and documentary subversion / Dominick M. Grace
