“The Old Maps Are Dissolving”: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood’s "The Robber Bride"
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Donna L. Potts [1]
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[1] Kansas State University
Kansas State University
City of Manhattan, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, ISSN 0732-7730, ISSN-e 1936-1645, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 1999, págs. 281-298
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In consideration of the intersections between intertextuality and identity issues, this essay examines the ways in which Margaret Atwood’s intertextuality in The Robber Bride may be read both as a postcolonial attempt to devise a discourse that displaces the effects of the colonizing gaze while still under its influence and as a narrative that shows the effect of colonization on Canada to be inseparable from the effect of patriarchy on Canadian women. This essay argues for hybridization as a means of acknowledging and accepting multiplicity, which permits, indeed facilitates, political movement.
