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Adapting Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale and Beyond
Edited by Fiona McMahon
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This book engages with Margaret Atwoods work and its adaptations. Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defence of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays, and poetry. However, a lesser-studied aspect of her work is Atwoods role both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaids Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwoods fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwoods own tendency to explore the possibilities of previously undervalued media (graphic novels), genres (science-fiction), and narratives (testimonial and historical modes). This collection hopes to expand on other studies of Atwoods work or on their adaptations to focus on the interplay between the two, providing an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the protean nature of the author and of adaptation.
This book engages with Margaret Atwoods work and its adaptations. Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defence of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays, and poetry. However, a lesser-studied aspect of her work is Atwoods role both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaids Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwoods fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwoods own tendency to explore the possibilities of previously undervalued media (graphic novels), genres (science-fiction), and narratives (testimonial and historical modes). This collection hopes to expand on other studies of Atwoods work or on their adaptations to focus on the interplay between the two, providing an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the protean nature of the author and of adaptation.