The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): the graphic novel (Gilead, 1)

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Handmaid’s Tale Video Game Revealed as June Staring Simulator”. n.d. http://syn.org.au/handmaids-tale-video-game-revealed-june-staring-simulator-p1ng/. To most, The Handmaid’s Tale is at least a little familiar now: the story of a not-too-distant future where women in what was once the United States are divided into classes, fertile women used as walking wombs. Between the original novel and the television series, more people than ever have at least a passing knowledge of the plot, and there won’t be too many surprises in this adaptation.

Forceville, Charles, et al. n.d. “Balloonics: The Visuals of Balloons in Comics”. In The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form, ed. Goggin, Joyce and Dan Hassler-Forest. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 56–74. American policy on abortion also threatens to impact on women in many other countries because “in 2017 President Trump reinstated and expanded a policy called the ‘global gag rule’ [… which] states that any overseas organization receiv[ing] US global health funding cannot even mention abortion as part of their counselling or education programs—even if the money for these particular programs does not come from the US”. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/abortion-laws-in-the-us-10-things-you-need-to-know/. Jadwin, Lisa. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985): Cultural and Historical Context”. Critical Insights, 2008, pp. 21–41.How do we navigate the world around us? Where do we start if we want to learn something new? Here is a reading list of non-fiction books exploring ideas that matter, including books by Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Ai Weiwei, Chelsea Manning and more.

Groensteen, Thierry. The System of Comics. Trans. Bart Beaty and Anne Miller. University Press of Mississippi, 2007.Mancuso, Cecilia. “Speculative or Science Fiction: As Margaret Atwood shows, there isn’t much difference.” The Guardian. 10.08.2016. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/10/speculative-or-science-fiction-as-margaret-atwood-shows-there-isnt-much-distinction. Bradley, Laura. Handmaid’s Tale: The Strange History of “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum”. Vanity Fair, May, 2017: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/handmaids-tale-nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum-origin-margaret-atwood. Atwood, Margaret. “What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump”. The New York Times, March 10, 2017. About Us Advertise Online Why Did I Get This Ad? About Our Ads Community Guidelines Press Room Other Hearst Subscriptions

End of Neoliberalism: Project Syndicate”. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-neoliberalism-project-syndicate.According to Charles Forceville in his work on “ballonics”, jagged balloon contours that are angular and asymmetrical “have more negative connotations than roundness and symmetry. Sharp, angular things are dangerous and potentially harmful, unlike rounded, smooth things. […] The idea that asymmetry in balloon-contour connotes ‘bad’ things may therefore be rooted in embodied cognition” (Forceville In its English-language usage in arts and literature since the mid-twentieth century, “speculative fiction” as a genre term is often attributed to Robert A. Heinlein. He first used the term in an editorial in The Saturday Evening Post, February 8, 1947. Wikipedia.