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VOL. 2, ISSUE 2 (2015)
Postcolonialism in margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing”: Disconnectedness from language, history and culture
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Anita
Abstract
This paper describes that Margaret Atwood is a powerful exponent of a concrete, dialogized socio-ideological language consciousness. There is abundance of social diversity of speech; critical interlamination of languages, voices; sharp comprehension of internally persuasive discourse as against the authoritarian discourse; multivoicedness and heteroglossia; accentuated evaluation and polyphony; art and answerability with the ethical dominance. Evidently, there are Bakhtinian concepts. A dialogized literary consciousness can unravel the contradictions inherent in imperialism and neo-colonialism as they perpetuate brutalization of human sensibilities. Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) focuses more directly on the psychological dimensions and strategies of sexual politics. It traces the experiences of the unnamed central female character-including a devastating extramarital affair, abortion, and the death of her father which lead to alienation and ultimately, to her mad identification with the exploited Canadian wilderness. Fully expressing post-sixties revulsion against international violence, American capitalist expansion, and pollution of environment, Atwood implies a basic analogy between woman’s personal victimization by a male-dominated society and the ecological destruction of the land under American economic imperialism.
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Pages:709-710
How to cite this article:
Anita "Postcolonialism in margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing”: Disconnectedness from language, history and culture". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 709-710
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