{"id":8653,"date":"2016-11-11T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2016-11-11T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:35:21","slug":"in-praise-of-the-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8653","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of The Handmaid’s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/i> has become a significant artifact of North American postmodern culture. It\u2019s hard to imagine, for example, the myriad of shelves dedicated to young-adult fiction at your local Barnes and Noble without the influence\u2014however indirect or incorrect\u2014of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/i>. After all, in our age of intellectual stagnation, who better to destroy patriarchal oppression than a noble and brave teenage girl, a postmodern Joan of Arc?<\/p>\n

But this is a most superficial reading of the novel. In reality, the story is as complicated as anything Huxley or Orwell wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bradley J. Birzer of Hillsdale College writes about the virtues of Margaret Atwood’s most-loved novel.<\/a>\u00a0(via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale has become a significant artifact of North American postmodern culture. It\u2019s hard to imagine, for example, the myriad of shelves dedicated to young-adult fiction at your local Barnes and Noble without the influence\u2014however indirect or incorrect\u2014of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale. After all, in our age of intellectual stagnation, who better to destroy patriarchal … Continue reading In Praise of The Handmaid’s Tale<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1753,2055],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-novel"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}