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Actively Ignoring and Unknown Ignorance of Fascism in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been on my to be read list for a while now, and recently, I finally pulled it down from the shelf and read it. From the opening sentence, when Offred tells us, “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium,” to Professor James Darcy Pieixoto’s keynote speech at the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies, I remained whooly invested in … Read More Actively Ignoring and Unknown Ignorance of Fascism in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

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“Why can’t we read this story as a universal text?”: Questions from the Classroom

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Recently, I taught Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible.” The story focuses on two Chippewa brothers, Henry and Lyman, and their relationship after Henry returns from the Vietnam War. During our discussion of the story in class, someone asked a question about the text and some of our previous readings that caused me to think well past the end of our session. The student posed … Read More “Why can’t we read this story as a universal text?”: Questions from the Classroom

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