126 KB0 KB200420252020Howells, Coral Annštevilka:1letnik:17str. 15-21DOI:10.4312/elope.17.1.15-28ISSN:1581-8918COBISSID_HOST:58126595URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-OMYAZJXDenZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v LjubljaniELOPE (Ljubljana)Atwood v poznejšem obdobjuAtwood, Margaretdigital technologydigitalna tehnologijadistopijadystopiafiction post 2000later Atwoodpop-prozapopular fictionproza po letu 2000Atwood's reinventions| so many Atwoods|In The Malahat Review (1977), Canadian critic Robert Fulford described Margaret Atwood as "endlessly Protean", predicting "There are many more Atwoods to come". Now at eighty, over forty years later, Atwood is an international literary celebrity with more than fifty books to her credit and translated into more than forty languages. This essay focuses on the later Atwood and her apparent reinvention since 2000, where we have seen a marked shift away from realistic fiction towards popular fiction genres, especially dystopias and graphic novels. Atwood has also become increasingly engaged with digital technology as creative writer and cultural critic. As this reading of her post-2000 fiction through her extensive back catalogue across five decades will show, these developments represent a new synthesis of her perennial social, ethical and environmental concerns, refigured through new narrative possibilities as she reaches out to an ever-widening readership, astutely recognising "the need for literary culture to keep up with the times"Kanadski kritik Robert Fulford je v The Malahat Review (1977) Margaret Atwood opisal kot "neskončno protejsko" in napovedal: "Atwood bomo videli še v številnih podobah". Štiri desetletja kasneje je Atwood pri osemdesetih svetovna literarna zvezdnica z več kot petdeset izdanimi knjigami, prevedenimi v več kot štirideset jezikov. Pričujoči esej se osredotoča na Atwood v poznejšem obdobju in na njeno novo podobo po letu 2000, ko se je opazno odmaknila od realistične pripovedne proze k bolj popularnim žanrom, kot so distopije in grafični romani. Atwood kot ustvarjalno pisateljico in kulturno kritičarko vse bolj zanima tudi digitalna tehnologija. V prispevku so njena dela, nastala po letu 2000, obravnavana v luči njenega ustvarjanja v obdobju petih desetletij. Njihov razvoj predstavlja novo sintezo aktualnih družbenih, etičnih in okoljskih vprašanj, obravnavanih s pomočjo novih pripovednih možnosti, ki se odpirajo ob iskanju poti do vse širšega kroga bralcev in zavedanju, da "mora iti književna kultura v korak s časom"TEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Znanstvena založba