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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Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-01-01
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Series: | SAGE Open |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016688933 |