Margaret Atwood’s Canadian hunger artist: Postcolonial appetites in the edible woman

In Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969), food serves a crucial function in the novel’s engagement with the feminist and postcolonial paradigms fundamental to Atwood’s writing. In her introduction to the novel, Atwood describes how early inspiration for the novel came from pondering the seemingly consumable figures of the bride and groom frequently placed on top of wedding cakes.