Recount Restriction and Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

Abstract

Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing crams the effects of the demarcation of identity revels in Canadian history where the question of Canadian national identity was sprouting, becoming a pointer that was more clearly defined and more intentionally sought out by Canadian artists and citizens. Atwood’s Surfacing can be considered in light of these historical developments, in sketching the establishment of recount restriction and not an avowal of the positive effects with such identifiers can bring. As a Canadian writer and a woman in particular, the narrator’s communal groupings stipulate her victimhood, a notion that explores in relation to Atwood’s major work of Canadian literary works. The narrator’s initial state of close proximity total psychological constriction is pinpointing the peril of social borders, and it is only in evading the identifiers that define her in peculiar of national, gender, and epistemological establish that she comes to a sort of completeness. This breaks out takes the form of a turn towards the chaotic world as a truly borderless space where it is doable to mendan inconsistent self.