Fiona Tolan

Biographic Data

ID94754
NAMEFiona Tolan
GIVEN NAMESFiona
FAMILY NAMETolan
SIGNATURETOLAN F
AFFILIATIONSLiverpool John Moores University
ORCID0000-0003-0648-6286
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Politics of Cleaning in Doris Lessing’s 1980s Realist Fiction

    Open AccessFiona TolanARTICLECritical Quarterly2021

    In Doris Lessing’s 1962 short story ‘To Room Nineteen’, published in A Man and Two Women just a year after the publication of The Golden Notebook, Susan Rawlings, a sensible, middle-class housewife with ‘four children, big house, garden, charwoman’ who will eventually commit suicide in a seedy Paddington hotel, struggles to articulate the feelings of entrapment and oppression that inexplicably plague her. The story, we are advised at the outset, …

  • I don’t know who I’d be if I wasn’t a writer”

    Open AccessFiona TolanARTICLEContemporary Women s Writing2019References: 1

    novels, including her most recent work, Home Fire, which was awarded the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction. She grew up in Karachi, "one of the world's great, fascinating cities" (Chambers 220), where she enjoyed a privileged cosmopolitan and secular upbringing

  • I could say that, too”

    Fiona TolanARTICLEContemporary Women s Writing2017Cited by: 1

  • Aging and Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction

    Fiona TolanARTICLEContemporary Women s Writing2017References: 1

    In “The Victory Burlesk,” a short story from Margaret Atwood’s 1983 collection, Murder in the Dark, the unnamed young female narrator recalls attending, in a spirit of arch irony, a burlesque show. She particularly enjoys the theatricality of the spectacle – the lights, colors, and the skill of the performers. A dancer commences a strip tease. With her back to the audience, the woman’s undulating body promises titillation and display, “but when s…

  • To Leave and to Return

    Fiona TolanARTICLEContemporary Women s Writing2009Cited by: 1References: 2

    Journal Article To Leave and to Return: Frustrated Departures and Female Quest in Alice Munro's Runaway Get access Fiona Tolan Fiona Tolan Liverpool John Moores University, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 161–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpp017 Published: 01 November 2010

  • Rerouting the Postcolonial

    J M Wilson, Janet Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Postcolonial Writing2009Cited by: 2

    This special issue traces several new directions in postcolonial studies in which the earlier paradigm of roots/rootedness can be seen to emerge into a new model of routes/“(re)routing”, thus refle

  • Margaret Atwood

    Fiona TolanBOOKMargaret Atwood2007

    Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction takes a new look at the complex relationship between Margaret Atwood’s fiction and feminist politics. Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author who has frequently been termed feminist but has famously rejected the label on many occasions, this book traces the influences of feminism in Atwood’s work and simultaneously plots moments of dissent or debate. Fiona Tolan presents a clear and detailed…

  • Situating Canada

    Fiona TolanARTICLEThe American Review of Canadian…2005

    Margaret Atwood published her eighth novel, The Robber Bride, in 1993; it marks a moment when postmodernism and post-colonialism that have always been discernible in Atwood's work came to fore in critical dialog. (1) The Robber Bride is a novel concerned with place and with origins. Many of characters have complicated ethnic and cultural histories, reflecting something of increasingly multicultural composition of contemporary Canada. But this mul…

  • Feminist utopias and questions of liberty

    Fiona TolanARTICLEWomen a Cultural Review2005Cited by: 2References: 6

    Published in 1985, a year after the date made infamous by George Orwell's novel, The Handmaid's Tale appeared during a period of heightened interest in utopian literature, particularly feminist uto

  • Guilt and Innocence in the Community and the Self

    Fiona TolanARTICLEBritish Journal of Canadian Studies2004References: 1

    This article examines the theme of guilt and innocence in Margaret Atwood's 1972 novel, Surfacing, and pays particular attention to how these themes interact in the text with feminism, nationalism and environmentalism. I suggest that the ideas that Atwood is exploring in the novel – ideas about an individual's social responsibility and about a society's responsibility towards an individual – are questions that later become central to the multicul…