Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood.

After reading some of Margaret Atwood's texts, I realized that she always includes Canada in them, either she describes some of the culture or important aspects (just like in "Tour-de-farce") or she just mentions the name and relates it with the rest of the text (just like in "Happy Endings"). Somehow I've learned how she admires the country she was born in and how she compares Canada with other countries such as England. I bet she is proud to be Canadian and that is one of the things I appreciate about her because instead of talking how wonderful are other countries, she talks about her natal country and makes me want to go to Canada, on the other hand, it can also be boring because everything she's relating everything with some Canadian aspects, excluding the rest of the world. But in "Tour-de-farce", even though its pretty obvious that she misses Canada, when she moves to England she realizes how much she loves her natal country but has to accept a different culture and needs to get used to it. 

Post-modernism.

What I've learned about post-modernism is a way to explain reality. It looks for a way to explain that reality and is not only how humans see or understand about it. In Post-modernism, the mind tries to understand its own reality, this is why is skeptical of explanations or arguments that claim to be valid for all groups because is focused in each person and how they consider something to be valid or true. 
The interpretations is essential in Post-modernism because as I mentioned before, it depends on each person how they consider something to be valid, so the interpretation is the most important thing because through them we can see what the world means to us and, therefore we can see how reality is constructed, individually. 

"Post-modernism cannot on its own principles ultimately justify itself any more than can the various metaphysical overviews against which the postmodern mind has defined itself." 

-Richard Tarnas (philosopher) 

Atwood and post-modernism?

 Relating post- modernism with Margaret Atwood, we can see that some of her texts contain a lot of post-modernism aspects in them, for example, in "Happy Endings" is not necessary to analyze if the text is valid or not because we can get a personal interpretation of that and give it our own validity. Another example is "Tour-de-farce", because in this text we can see that there are some important aspects of post-modernism such as self-awareness, intertextuality, deconstruction and pastiche.