Event: Beyond The Handmaid’s Tale

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Walking into a Margaret Atwood novel is like being in a darker, eco-Gothic, parallel universe to our own, where most things are worryingly familiar but taken a few steps further into the darkness. Leading Atwood scholar Professor Gina Wisker, of the University of Brighton, argues that the dryness of these deadly man-made worlds resulting from callous stupidity are only countered by ‘salvaging’: imagining possibilities in these worlds of the reassertion of balance between people, and between people and living things.

Join us Monday Dec 9, 2019 at 6.30pm at The Lighthouse, Tannachie House, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth University.

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