Besana, Bruno. “Alain Badiou: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism”. The Scandal of Self-contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions. Ed. Luca di Blasi. Vienna and Berlin: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2012, pp. 209–237. End of Neoliberalism: Project Syndicate”. n.d. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-neoliberalism-project-syndicate. Barthes, Roland. (1969). “The Reality Effect.” The Rustle of Language. Trans. Richard Howard. Ed François Wahl. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 141–148. It's this ability to accommodate both the mundane and the fantastic that suits the graphic form to the The Handmaid's Tale's demands, as "comics and graphic novels can switch seamlessly between abstract and literal imagery," Nault says. She describes a scene late in the story to demonstrate, when Offred, the narrator, "thinks of bodies she's seen hanging on the wall. The shapes of withered seed pods in Serena Joy's flower bed become the shapes of hanging handmaids."

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 Slattery, Mary F. “What is Literary Realism?” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 13:1, 1972, pp. 55–62. 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. 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/.Groensteen, Thierry. The System of Comics. Trans. Bart Beaty and Anne Miller. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Jadwin, Lisa. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985): Cultural and Historical Context”. Critical Insights, 2008, pp. 21–41. About Us Advertise Online Why Did I Get This Ad? About Our Ads Community Guidelines Press Room Other Hearst Subscriptions

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. Allardice, Lisa. “Interview with Margaret Atwood”. The Guardian. 20.20.2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/20/margaret-atwood-i-am-not-a-prophet-science-fiction-is-about-now. Atwood, Margaret. “What The Handmaid’s Tale Means in the Age of Trump”. The New York Times, March 10, 2017. 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.See: https://www.themarysue.com/exclusive-the-handmaids-tale-graphic-novel/. Lisa Jadwin has published a very detailed article on the context in which the novel was published the first time around which might have contributed to its success. See also Jadwin, 2009, passim. 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. Even so, for her own interpretation of Gilead, Nault didn't need anything beyond the text itself. "My hope was to not just show the story with pictures, but to capture the spirit of the novel," she says. "The book is of course horrific, but it's also witty, dry, and sometimes darkly funny." Thus, the comic format complements both the narrator's perspective — which reflects jumps in time, memory, and thought — and the story's frequent overlapping of reality and fantasy. Mikkonen, Kai. n.d. “Remediation and the Sense of Time in Graphic Narratives”. 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. 74–87.