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S. R. Wilson, Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction. From Atwood to Morrison

S. R. Wilson, Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction. From Atwood to Morrison

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

WILSON, Sharon Rose, Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction. From Atwood to Morrison, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 224 p.
ISBN 0-230-60554-0

RÉSUMÉ

Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fictionexplores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial womenwriters' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With closereadings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris Lessing to ToniMorrison, Wilson examines meanings of myths and fairy tales as well astheir varying techniques, images, intertexts, and genres. Although thewriters represent several different nationalities and racial, ethnic,and cultural backgrounds, they employ a type of postcolonial literaturethat urges readers and societies beyond colonization. Wilson arguesthat the use of myths and fairy tales generally convey characters'transformation from alienation and symbolic amputation to greaterconsciousness, community, and wholeness, and it is in and through storythat characters construct a hybrid way of establishing themselves inthe larger world.

BIOGRAPHIE

Sharon Rose Wilson is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Northern Colorado and is the author of Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics.She is currently President of the Doris Lessing Society and wasFounding co-President of the Margaret Atwood Society.  She edited Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations and co-edited Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works with Thomas B. Friedman and Shannon Hengen.