The “edible woman” in the title is a doll-shaped cake baked and consumed in the novel’s conclusion. The story centers on a college graduate, Marian MacAlpin, who resists marriage as she struggles to find her place between two men: her fiancé, Peter, and her mentor, Duncan. Her first novel, The Edible Woman (1969), for example, exposes the feminine situation already charted by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique (1963). As a woman writer, Atwood, in most of her novels and short fictions, situates the female body in relation to women’s conditions of entrapment, sexual politics, and social myths of femininity. A versatile writer whose literary career encompasses all literary genres and experimental forms (essay, fiction, poetry, drama, criticism, children’s books, political cartoons), Atwood fuses important Canadian cultural phenomena and national traditions into such a wide range of genres, creating new literary territories and reverberating sparking controversies.Ītwood’s work inherits three distinct literary traditions: Anglo-American feminism, gothic romanticism, and Canadian nationalism. Atwood is a prolific writer who not only blazes a trail for contemporary Canadian writers but also helps Canadian literature make its mark on world literature. It is difficult to find appropriate words to define Margaret Atwood’s (born November 18, 1939) significance in Canadian culture and literature.
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