Resumen de “The Old Maps Are Dissolving”: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood’s "The Robber Bride"
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.
