The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - Book Discussion

Hello, welcome to the world record attempt for the amount of times I can say the words ‘Alex Thomas’ and ‘likewise’ in the same video, otherwise known as the latest in my series on Margaret Atwood's major works. Enjoy!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
00:49 Plot Summary
07:02 Theme 1: Gender, Class and the narrator
09:24 Henry James' The Ambassadors and Buttons
10:29 Theme 2: Questioning the narrative
13:58 Summing up and concluding thoughts


Articles Referenced:
Hembrough, T., 2017. 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 The Blind Assassin.
Ingersoll, E., 2003. Waiting for the end: closure in Margaret Atwood's" The blind assassin".
Parkin-Gounelas, R., 2004. " What isn't there" in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin: The Psychoanalysis of Duplicity.
Reed, A., 2009. Disembodied Hands: Structural Duplicity in Atwood's The Blind Assassin.
Robinson, A., 2006. Alias Laura": Representations of the past in Margaret Atwood's" The Blind Assassin.
Staels, H., 2004. Atwood’s specular narrative: the blind assassin.

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