This chapter reveals a skepticism about national and social myth in its discussion of Atwood’s discourses of home and nation in her later novel. Focusing on their postcolonial implications, Rao argues that any discourse about ‘home’ is an extension of discourses of national and national identity and related to concepts of belonging and homelessness, dislocation, and alienation. The chapter traces patterns of exile and self-division from *Cat’s Eye* through *Oryx and Crake*, where Snowman is the ultimate outsider. Here Atwood the Canadian nationalist moves beyond national boundaries in a post-catastrophe world where ‘home’ exists nowhere but in imagination and memory.
Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction
RAO, Eleonora
2006-01-01
Abstract
This chapter reveals a skepticism about national and social myth in its discussion of Atwood’s discourses of home and nation in her later novel. Focusing on their postcolonial implications, Rao argues that any discourse about ‘home’ is an extension of discourses of national and national identity and related to concepts of belonging and homelessness, dislocation, and alienation. The chapter traces patterns of exile and self-division from *Cat’s Eye* through *Oryx and Crake*, where Snowman is the ultimate outsider. Here Atwood the Canadian nationalist moves beyond national boundaries in a post-catastrophe world where ‘home’ exists nowhere but in imagination and memory.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
