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To Atwood, the central image of Canadian literature, equivalent to the image of the ''island'' in British Literature and the ''frontier'' in US-American Literature , is the notion of ''survival'' and its central character the ''victim''. Atwood claims that both English and French Novel s, Short Stories , Play s and Poems participate in creating this theme as the central distinguishing feature of the nation's literature. =Table of Contents= :What, Why, and Where Is Here? #Survival #Nature the Monster #Animal Victims #First People: Indians and Eskimos as Symbols #Ancestral Totems: Explorers, Settlers #Family Portrait: Masks of the Bear #Failed Sacrifices: The Reluctant Immigrant #The Casual Incident of Death: Futile Heroes, Unconvincing martyrs and Other Bad Ends #The Paralyzed Artist #Ice Women vs Earth Mothers: The Stone Angel and the Absent Venus #Québec: Burning Mansions #Jail-Breaks and Re-Creations =References= Atwood, Margaret. ''Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature''. Toronto: O.W. Toad Ltd., 2004. ISBN 0-7710-0872-4 =External links= Review of the 2004 edition of ''Survival'' at thepeerreview.ca CBC radio interview with Margaret Atwood ] on ''Survival'' when it first came out. Broadcast Nov. 6, 1972. Excerpt from Chapter 1 of ''Survival'' |
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