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Politics of Body in Margaret Atwood�s
The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle
S. Padmaja, M.A., M.Phil.
 Margaret Atwood
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood
Abstract
The present paper attempts to focus upon female consciousness in the novels of Margaret Atwood. It presents you with an introduction that includes the background of the Canadian novel and female consciousness in the novels of Margaret Atwood. Like many of Atwood�s other works, The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976) are explicitly concerned with the complexities of body image. Feminist novel The Edible Woman speculates upon the predominant feminist issues such as loss of identity, subordination of woman in the male-dominated, male-chauvinistic society, woman striving to establish an identity of her own, and her being exploited in the consumer society where woman�s body is treated as a toy, as a consumable item - a symbolic representation of consumerism and consumer problems prevalent in modern society. Lady Oracle is Margaret Atwood's third novel, a comic masterpiece in its parodies of literary forms and subversion of literary expectations. Atwood�s fiction might dismantle culturally-encoded concepts of femininity and propose a useful corrective to traditional readings of the female body in which the re-embodiment of the self is equated to a re-embodiment of culture. Margaret Atwood�s novels depict the internal consciousness of women who break all the conventional identities in order to live with freedom.
Keywords: eating disorder, female consciousness, consumable item, feminism
Commonwealth Literature
Commonwealth is an international organization with colonized countries� of different social, political and economic backgrounds. These include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good governance, free trade, multiculturalism and world peace. Commonwealth Literature is commonly called New English Literature, Literature in English, Third World Literature and Post-colonial Literature. Many versatile writers explored the Canadian life and its inheritance in different genres like fiction, poetry, short stories and literary criticism. It often reflects the Canadian perspective on Nature, Frontier life and Canada�s position in the world.
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S. Padmaja, M.A., M.Phil.
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PSR Engineering College
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Sivakasi - 626140
Tamilnadu
India
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