does Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale represent Trump's America? (generation, election, elect)
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“After the US election [we] said, ‘We’re no longer making a fantasy tale, we’re making a documentary’.”
While it would be perverse to suggest Margaret Atwood owes anything to Donald Trump, his fledgling White House administration has sparked a resurgence of interest in the Canadian author’s celebrated work, The Handmaid’s Tale.
Together with an impressive new small-screen adaptation, old fans and a new generation of readers are being drawn to her 1985 novel, which is set in a near-future totalitarian society in which women’s rights are curtailed and some, called the handmaids, are kept purely for reproductive purposes.
It just goes to show how stupid some people are. I read that book in the '80s, and it no more represents Trump's America than it it did then. Actually, then I could see it perhaps happening because we had the Moral Majority and all that going on, but Trump? No way.
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