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The Handmaid's Tale: Critical Essay by Coral Ann Howells

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Margaret Atwood
About 29 pages (8,686 words)
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SOURCE: “Science Fiction in the Feminine: The Handmaid's Tale,” in Margaret Atwood, St. Martin's Press, 1996, pp. 126-47.

In the following essay, Howells discusses the presentation of female self-identity, memory, sensual experience, and Offred's resistance to patriarchal authority in The Handmaid's Tale.

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