@article{ART002095979},
author={YOON Myung OK},
title={Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2011},
volume={4},
number={2},
pages={177-199},
doi={10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177}
TY - JOUR
AU - YOON Myung OK
TI - Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2011
VL - 4
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 177
EP - 199
SN - 2092-6081
AB - In Surfacing,Margaret Atwood, who is one of the most powerful writers in Canada, creates a nameless speaker and heroine in order to explore her identity as a woman and in a macro sense, as a nation. She accomplishes the whole process by the technique of using visual devices such as albums, pictures, video cameras, illustrations, and images in order to create a tool to use for the speaker’s job as an illustrator. First, she makes her heroine revise Canadian cultural myths and the official history of Canadian former settlers and re-evaluate all cultural assumptions and presuppositions on Canada and women. And she then causes her heroine to enter upon a quest for her self-identity, which has been fixed with in the stereotype of Western fashions, especially when it has related to the politics of the nation and the female gender. This indicates Atwood’s self-criticism of Canada and Canadians, in her hope to remake Canada as a nation, a culture, and a society and to help individuals, such as women, to find their proper identities, survive their attributed selves, and live their independent lives. Therefore, I can say that Surfacing is Atwood’s expression of love for Canada and of her dream for a hopeful future for all Canadians.
KW - Margaret Atwood;Self-Identity;Politics of Nation and Gender;Visual Device;Feminist
DO - 10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
ER -
YOON Myung OK. (2011). Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(2), 177-199.
YOON Myung OK. 2011, "Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.4, no.2 pp.177-199. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK "Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4.2 pp.177-199 (2011) : 177.
YOON Myung OK. Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. 2011; 4(2), 177-199. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK. "Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.2 (2011) : 177-199.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK. Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(2), 177-199. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK. Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2011; 4(2) 177-199. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK. Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. 2011; 4(2), 177-199. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
YOON Myung OK. "Self-Identity, the Politics of Nation and Gender: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.2 (2011) : 177-199.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.2.177
