Body Politics and Embodied Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s “The Man from Mars”

Unveiling Orientalism: The Mystification, Stereotyping, and Exclusion in Margaret Atwood’s “The Man from Mars”

“…Yuan (2019) studies Atwood's "Dancing Girls" from ecological feminism through the heroines' gloomy marital lives and sufferings of women, men, and nature in a patriarchal society while advocating the way of establishing a harmonious relationship among the three. Atayurt-Fenge (2022) offers an interpretation of MFM from body politics and embodied subjectivity through a critical exploration of the heroine's identity in her experience of the body in different social contexts and the acculturation of bodily consciousness and idealized body images in shaping one's sense of security and cultural tolerance. In general, present studies about MFM mainly concern the Canadian heroine's mental and physical state in building her feminine identity or the alienation of human relationships in the postmodern years.…”