Keywords
intergenerational transmission
trauma
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Abstract
The subject matter of the vast majority of Margaret Atwood’s novels is the questioning of the social status of women, with the special focus placed on their victimization and self-victimization. This is particularly conspicuous in her award-winning ‚Blind Assassin’, a family saga of five generations of women of the once-respected and affluent Chase Family. The main protagonist and simultaneously a narrator, Iris Chase, spins the story of her life in the form of a diary, presumably written for her long lost granddaughter Sabrina. Iris’s diary is the only chance to enable the last woman in the family of Chase to learn the true events that led to the family’s downfall; it is an attempt at telling herstory rather than history. The aim of the article is to analyze the way motherhood features in the discussed novel.
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