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T1 Exploding the Myth: Women in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
A1 Sanz Belloso, Raquel
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 myth
K1 demystification
K1 Penelope
K1 the twelve maids
K1 new identities
K1 mito
K1 desmitificación
K1 Penélope
K1 las doce criadas
K1 nuevas identidades
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB In The Penelopiad, through a postmodernist rewriting of the classic myth of Odysseus and Penelope, Margaret Atwood gives voice to the women who were ignored and relegated to the shadows in the Odyssey. Through the creation of the new identities of Penelope and the twelve maids, the Canadian author makes this Homeric myth explode by questioning everything we thought we knew about these women. While the character of Penelope has been praised by critics and authors, the maids have, once again, been disregarded. The aim of this paper is to show how the deconstruction of these characters is used to create new female identities that destroy the myth of Penelope and reinforce the image of the twelve maids
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63754
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63754
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-nov-2024