On The Space Writing Of Atwood's Dystopian Novels

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers of the contemporary English literary world and is known as the "Queen of Canadian Literature".Among the 16 novels she has published,dystopian novels undoubtedly occupy a unique and important position.The Handmaid's Tale,which has earned her a wider international reputation,is known as the"feminist 1984".It inherits the dystopian literary traditions of Huxley and Orwell.Before that,Atwood had never been involved in fictional writing.After that,she wrote three dystopian novels:Oryx And Crake,The Year Of The Flood,and MaddAddam.It can be said that this type of novel is the most representative of Atwood's social thoughts,because the writer tries to integrate the factors of the real society to establish the greatest connection between fiction and reality,and to create a true fictional garden,which is essentially a Kind of conscious space creation.In the non-fictional collection In Other Worlds:SF and the Human Imagination,Atwood called her own kind of works "Ustopia".However,scholars at home and abroad hardly treat and study the four novels as a whole.This dissertation is based on Atwood's dystopian novels,analyzes the space composition in her novel after the Spatial Turn,and deeply studies the social significance embodied in the "Ustopia".Atwood reveals the essence of space oppression by presenting the power of the suppressed others in space,and ultimately points to the humanistic concern for the individual spiritual world and the survival of all human beings.This dissertation consists of the introduction,the first,second,third and fourth chapters and the conclusion.The introduction begins with Atwood's life and explores the background of The Handmaid's Tale and The MaddAddam Trilogy,and points out the unique significance of dystopian novels in Atwood's creative career.Then this part summarizes Atwood's literary research at home and abroad,especially the study of dystopian novels,and clarifies the value and significance of the selected topic.The main body of the paper consists of four chapters.The first chapter studies the fit of Atwood's dystopian novels with space theory.First of all,this part is to clarify literary criticism after the Spatial Turn.Second,combing the concept of "space" and focusing on the political connotation of space.Finally,exploring Atwood's identity awareness.Because of this marginal identity,she is sensitive to the social oppression embodied by geographical places and spatial composition.The second chapter studies the gender space,national space and class space in Atwood's dystopian novels from the perspective of space theory.This chapter shows Atwood's high concern for women's living space,post-colonial space,and social space,reflecting the unique power of literary space.The third chapter is to discuss the narrative selection and narrative skills in Atwood's dystopian novels.The "fictive autobiography"strategy expands the space of women's individual narrative voice in fiction.Fragmentation narration dispels grand narrative and returns to the attention of individual's daily life.The fourth chapter is based on Atwood's dystopian novels which are actually realist works.According to Atwood's non-fictional collection In Other Worlds:SF and the Human Imagination to illustrate Atwood's "Ustopia" is a concrete space for the unity of opposites.By analyzing the "Utopia" constructed in dystopian novels,it will reflect Atwood's thinking on post-humanism.The conclusion is a summary of the full text.This dissertation examines the composition of space in Atwood's dystopian novels under the perspective of space theory,and explores the writer refracted by the " Ustopia " inquiring about the human condition and the search for future civilization.