GINA WISKER Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, and Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching, at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace': A Reader's Guide (2002, Continuum) and has written a number of books for Palgrave, including Black Women's Writing (1992), Postcolonial and African American Women's Writing (2000), and the highly successful The Postgraduate Research Handbook (2001).

'A stimulating new study of Margaret Atwood's fiction which also offers a substantial authoritative overview of recent trends and key debates in Atwood criticism. This is something no other book on the market has attempted. This book will be worth its weight in gold to students and researchers.' - Coral Ann Howells, University of Reading, UK

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Quest for Identity: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) , Surfacing (1972)Constraining the Feminine: The Edible Woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976)Explorations, Bones and Murders: The Short Stories (1977-94)Violence and Trauma: Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981)The Oppressive Future: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)Feminist Gothic: Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993)No Nearer the Truth Versions of Fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996)Rewriting History and Myth: The Blind Assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005)Writers, Readers, Constructions of the Real and the Future: Oryx and Crake (2003)Re-telling Old Tales: Moral Disorder (2006), The Tent (2006)The End of the World?: The Year of the Flood (2009)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

GINA WISKER Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, and Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching, at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace': A Reader's Guide (2002, Continuum) and has written a number of books for Palgrave, including Black Women's Writing (1992), Postcolonial and African American Women's Writing (2000), and the highly successful The Postgraduate Research Handbook (2001).

'A stimulating new study of Margaret Atwood's fiction which also offers a substantial authoritative overview of recent trends and key debates in Atwood criticism. This is something no other book on the market has attempted. This book will be worth its weight in gold to students and researchers.' - Coral Ann Howells, University of Reading, UK

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Quest for Identity: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) , Surfacing (1972)Constraining the Feminine: The Edible Woman (1969), Lady Oracle (1976)Explorations, Bones and Murders: The Short Stories (1977-94)Violence and Trauma: Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981)The Oppressive Future: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)Feminist Gothic: Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993)No Nearer the Truth Versions of Fictionalising: Alias Grace (1996)Rewriting History and Myth: The Blind Assassin (2000), The Penelopiad (2005)Writers, Readers, Constructions of the Real and the Future: Oryx and Crake (2003)Re-telling Old Tales: Moral Disorder (2006), The Tent (2006)The End of the World?: The Year of the Flood (2009)ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.