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. Home Biography Novels Short Fiction Poetry Site Awards Excerpts from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature Excerpt (pp.27-43) [.pdf] - Queen's University Excerpt - UMN Newspaper Articles Regarding Survival "Canadian Writers Debate Nationalism", New York Times, 1973 Book Reviews The Peer Review (no date) Essays on Survival Re-Figuring Imperialism: Gray, Cohen, Atwood & the Female Body - Christopher E. Gittings Images of Women's Power in Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Women - Carol L. Beran Mandatory Subversive Manifesto: Canadian Criticism vs. Literary Criticism - B. Cameron & M. Dixon Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations - Sharon Wilson Nature Poetry in Canada Since Survival - Ross Leckie The Maple Leaf as Maple Leaf: Facing the Failure         of the search for Emblems in Canadian Literature - M. Jeanne Yardley Surviving Women: A Study of Margaret Atwood's Protagonists - Master's Thesis, Kelly S. Reese to Margaret Atwood's Non-fiction Works to Margaret Atwood Luminarium Copyright ©1996-2007 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Book cover images remain under the copyright of their respective copyright owners. This page created on December 22, 2006 by Anniina Jokinen. Last updated January 3, 2007. About this Website | Luminarium Privacy Statement. Margaret Atwood has gone on to become not just a major Canadian Writer, and a woman writer (whom some would call a Feminist Writer), but an award-winning author of English literature. Her works include novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction, children's books, etc.