Deconstructing Gender Roles and Digesting the Magic of Folktales and Fairy Tales in Annie Proulx’s Omnivorous Wyoming Stories

Deconstructing Gender Roles and Digesting the Magic of Folktales and Fairy Tales in Annie Proulx’s Omnivorous Wyoming Stories

Going beyond the extensive literature dealing with Annie Proulx’s deconstruction of myths tied to the West, this paper delves into her palimpsestuous Wyoming short stories that transgress dominant norms and conventions of genres and genders. Focusing on Proulx’s grotesque, feminist revisions of old...

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Main Author:	Bénédicte Meillon
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine 2019-07-01
Series:	L'Ordinaire des Amériques
Subjects:	tales genre/gender feminist revision magical realism postmodernism
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/orda/4868

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