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Volume 20:10 October 2020
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Extricating the Psyche in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

S. Abirami, Ph.D. Research Scholar and Dr. J. Sobhana Devi


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Abstract

The prolific writer Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and talented feminist writers of postmodern Canadian Fiction. Surfacing (1972) is a complex work – a psychological novel as well as a detective novel. This complex novel is better understood if we read it several times to get the real meaning of what Atwood intends to communicate. As a feminist writer, Margaret always explores women's distinctive awareness of the role of gender in shaping their mind, psyche, feminism, etc. There is a gap between men and women and through her novels Atwood demonstrates and highlights such gap between them. The protagonist in the novel Surfacing becomes assertive because of the circumstance of victimisation. The paper attempts to show that extricating the Psyche is at the heart of Atwood’s novel under consideration.

Keywords: Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, Impuissant, Victim, Subdued, Schizophrenia, Feminism, Self-discovery, Isolation.

The novels of Canadian literature have their own focus and they deal with the geographical sizes and cultural breadth of Canadian Life. The most common way followed is to distinguish them by region (or) province. In Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, the narrator is searching her self-identity in Northern Quebec. There is a portrayal of women/females as victims of victimization, but, over the course of time, they find themselves more powerful than men. Margaret Atwood frames this novel as a first person narrative.

Northern Quebec is rugged in nature and life. The narrator encounters a bleak image of darkness and devastation of landscapes. The tall birches that sway in the wind are afflicted with tree cancer and the summer cottages wear a deserted look which appear like measles. The city is in the grip of commercialization and everything. The nature around symbolizes the deterioration that has crept into the relationships of theirs.

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S. Abirami, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai 625001
abiramieee2015@gmail.com

Dr. J. Sobhana Devi
Assistant Professor
Department of English
SFR College for Women
Sivakasi - 626123
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