Bodily Harm

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"Bodily Harm" is a psychological novel by Margaret Atwood that follows a jaded journalist whose trip to a Caribbean island draws her into political turmoil and forces her to confront violence, vulnerability, and control.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
psychological novel
author Margaret Atwood
authorNationality Canadian
countryOfOrigin Canada
explores media and representation of conflict
personal versus political violence
political instability in a fictional Caribbean nation
followedBy The Handmaid's Tale
genre literary fiction
political fiction
psychological fiction
hasCharacter Rennie Wilford
hasCharacterType jaded journalist protagonist
hasForm prose
hasISBN 9780771008139
hasLiteraryStyle dark humor
realism
hasMotif scars and bodily injury
surveillance and threat
language English
literaryPeriod late 20th-century literature
mainCharacter Rennie Wilford
narrativeFocus psychological interiority of the protagonist
narrativePerspective third-person limited
pageCountApproximate 300
partOf Margaret Atwood
surface form: Margaret Atwood bibliography
precededBy Life Before Man
protagonistOccupation journalist
publicationYear 1981
publisher McClelland and Stewart
setting Caribbean island
Toronto
targetAudience adult readers
theme body and autonomy
control
gender and power
political turmoil
power dynamics
survival
trauma
violence
vulnerability

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Life Before Man followedBy Bodily Harm
Margaret Atwood notableWork Bodily Harm