"The Old Maps Are Dissolving": Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood's The Robber Bride

"The Old Maps Are Dissolving": Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood's The Robber Bride

Intertextuality requires the reader to reinterpret the texts, thereby undercutting the notion that authorial authority rests on a single meaning, fixed in the past. Postmodern border-crossing, or intertextuality, becomes the means for contesting the borders of nation, gender, and self in Margaret At...

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Veröffentlicht in:Tulsa studies in women's literature 1999-10, Vol.18 (2), p.281-298
1. Verfasser: Potts, Donna L.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Atwood, Margaret
Colonialism
Communities
Femininity
Gender identity
Gender roles
Intertextuality
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Men
Mothers
Novels
Robbers
Sexes
Sexual violence
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Zusammenfassung:Intertextuality requires the reader to reinterpret the texts, thereby undercutting the notion that authorial authority rests on a single meaning, fixed in the past. Postmodern border-crossing, or intertextuality, becomes the means for contesting the borders of nation, gender, and self in Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride."
ISSN:0732-7730
1936-1645
DOI:10.2307/464450