Anti-edibles: capitalism and schizophrenia in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman.(Critical Essay)

From: Style | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Hobgood, Jennifer | Copyright information

Typically, critics have read Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman as either an optimistic celebration of female "liberation" or a materialist-feminist protest. But Atwood's style--primarily her manipulation of a shifting narrative point of view and her use of an unbalanced, tripartite structure--reflects a more complex picture of capitalism and female subjectivity in the 1960s. By varying structural and narrative form within the novel and by using anorexia as a discursive technique, ...

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