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Article: Alias Laura: representations of the past in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Alias Laura: Representations of the Past in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin by Alan Robinson
Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, an intricately self-referential historical novel comprising two generically different self-narratives, is a book of the dead, motivated by the need of the main narrator, Iris Griffen Chase, to memorialize and appease the ghosts which haunt her. This article analyses her psychological entanglement with her dead sister, evident in the conscientious self-examination in Iris's memoir and in her fictional masquerading alias Laura, and the historiographical and hermeneutic complexities of her self-narratives, in ...
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Article: The Blind Assassin wins Booker Prize for ...
The Birmingham Post (England);
November 8, 2000 ;
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...Canadian writer Margaret Atwood last night won one of the book ... fourth attempt. Her novel The Blind Assassin took the pounds 20,000 prize ... the bride. CAPTION(S): Margaret Atwood with her prize winning novel The Blind Assassin
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