Yearning for The Womb: Postcolonial Aspects of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Yearning for The Womb: Postcolonial Aspects of Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Author(s): Uroš TomićSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Accent Publisher
Keywords: postcolonial literature; Margaret Atwood; Surfacing; body; center; margin; identity;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I will discuss different interconnected aspects of postcolonialism in the novel Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood: tradition, cultural and individual identity, center/margin opposition and body. Particular focus will be placed upon dialectics between body of language and the female body of the main character, whose journey represents a symbolical attempt of transcending cultural oppositions and borders and identity crisis.
Journal: Caiete de Antropologie Istorică
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 271-278
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English