Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature "When first
published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling
book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has
continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the
way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative,
and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose,
Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and
a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood
begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of
our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims."
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and
impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from
Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly
new perspectives." —The Publisher. Excerpts from Survival: A
Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature Excerpt (pp.27-43) [.pdf]
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