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AP LITERATURE DATA SHEET
Title:
The Handmaid’s Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publication Date:
1985
Outside source(s): spark notes
postmodernism
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Literary Era:
postmodernism
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Dystopian Fiction
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