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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: examining its utopian, dystopian, feminist and postmodernist traditions

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood as discussed by the authors examines its utopian, dystopian, feminist and postmodernist traditions, examining its utopian and dystopian, and examines its postmodernism.
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: examining its utopian, dystopian, feminist and postmodernist traditions" (1991). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 57.

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Artemis : foregrounding queer voices using transmedia storytelling

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a transmedia project that attempts to appeal to both marginalised queer audiences and mainstream audiences by working within popular genres and using participatory and collaborative storytelling experiences, to foreground the queer voice.
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Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe? Imagining California as an ecological utopia

TL;DR: This paper explored four California-based eco-utopias: The Earth Abides (George Stewart, 1949), Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach, 1975), Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1990), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992).
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Women of Gilead as colonized subjects in Margaret Atwood’s novel: A study of postcolonial and feminist aspects of The Handmaid’s Tale

TL;DR: Postcolonialism and feminism are two critical discourses that have some common features as both bodies of thought concern the issues of oppression, inequality, binary oppositions, political/social as discussed by the authors.
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A Gender's Apocalypse: a Comparison of Power Relations in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Naomi Alderman's "The Power"

Bruno Kulić
TL;DR: The Handmaid's Tale and The Power are complementary examples of feminist dystopian fiction that reveal contemporary concerns related to the issues of gender roles, abuse of power, and equality.
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La importancia de las imágenes.: La construcción estética patriarcal en la serie de televisión The handmaid’s tale

TL;DR: The importance of reading and understanding the images that are presented to us in our daily life is emphasized in this paper, with the same conclusion that the need to rethink the images, which in fact say much more than it may at first appear.
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TL;DR: Rabkin and Bittner as discussed by the authors present fourteen essays that assess man's fascination with and seeking for no place, from diverse perspectives: the sociological, the psychological, the political, the aesthetic.