Myths and fairy tales in contemporary women's fiction: from Atwood to Morrison

Abstract

Atwood's Monstrous, Dismembered, Cannibalized, and (Sometimes) Reborn Female Bodies: The Robber Bride and Other Texts Fitcher's and Frankenstein's Gaze in Oryx and Crake The Writer as Crone Goddess in Atwood's The Penelopiad and Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor Mythic Quests for the Word and Postcolonial Identity: Lessing's The Story of Colonel Dann, Mara's Daughter, Griot and The Snow Dog and Morrison's Beloved Reading Erdrich's The Beet Queen : Demeter, The Wizard of Oz, The Ramayana, and Native American Myth Silenced Women in Ferre's The Youngest Doll : 'The Red Shoes,' Cinderella,' 'Fitcher's Bird' Enchantment, Transformation, and Rebirth in Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight Bluebeard's Forbidden Room in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Fairy Tales and Myth in Hulme's The Bone People

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