From an Obscured Gaze to a Seeing Eye? Iris as Victim, Villain, and Avenger in the Role of Writer-as-Assassin in Margaret Atwood’s

In the postmodern period, first-person-limited, unreliable, female narrators may have a greater difficulty in “seeing” and, thus, depicting their landscapes than previous eras’ storytellers. Iris (Chase) Griffen, narrator-protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin , spins a complicated, sel...

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Main Author: Tara Hembrough
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016688933