In this thesis, I explore the predictive nature of the two texts The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead in relation to the 2016 election. I started by reading all the articles that I could find on the two novels. I found a lot of …
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Although science fiction does not normally deal with religion, feminist writers, especially in the utopian/dystopian sub-genre of science fiction, recognized the dangers of fundamentalism and its infusion into American politics in the 1980s and began to address those dangers thr…
This project illustrates and extends Canadian women's perspectives of history through historiographic metafiction. I analyze how over the past 30 years Canadian women's literature subverts traditional notions of historical writing; these postmodern revisionings of the past quest…
This dissertation explores the phenomenon whereby a number of deceased Canadian women writers have had their lives utilized in subsequent works of fiction, drama, poetry, film, and biography. The dissertation gives this phenomenon a name—biographical influence—and argues that it…
Scholars have scrutinized Gwendolyn Brooks, Eudora Welty, H.D., Margaret Atwood, and Louise Glück individually and collectively, in various combinations, for their use of classical myth and feminist revisionary processes. Historically, these writers studied Latin or Greek at a t…
Recent media attention on the trial and conviction of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her five children, as well as on female suicide bombers in Israel, indicates not only “a morbid curiosity in the United States relating to mothers killing their children” (M…
Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the …