The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale

Among the many frameworks of interpretation that Margaret Atwood’s dystopia (or ustopia, as she calls it) The Handmaid’s Tale allows, a particularly challenging one is its reading in/as palimpsest. Choosing not to favour an attempt at hierarchizing the narrative construction and the fabula contai...

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Main Authors:	Michaela PRAISLER, Oana-Celia GHEORGHIU
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Casa Cărții de Știință 2019-12-01
Series:	Cultural Intertexts
Subjects:	metafiction rewriting authenticity intertextuality canon
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spelling	doaj-543a8edc284345f2b6bbad786a6ff6102020-11-25T02:23:30ZengCasa Cărții de ȘtiințăCultural Intertexts2393-06242393-10782019-12-0199171181The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale Michaela PRAISLER0Oana-Celia GHEORGHIU1“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galați, Romania“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galați, RomaniaAmong the many frameworks of interpretation that Margaret Atwood’s dystopia (or ustopia, as she calls it) The Handmaid’s Tale allows, a particularly challenging one is its reading in/as palimpsest. Choosing not to favour an attempt at hierarchizing the narrative construction and the fabula contained in Offred’s spoken tale – transcribed from audiocassettes two centuries after the deployment of the Christian fundamentalist coup d’état that turned the United States into a horrifying inferno for women –, and also leaving on the sidelines the seductive, yet rather facile feminist evaluation that the novel invites, this paper focuses on metafiction and the rewriting of “herstory”, in an analysis of the ‘Historical Notes’ that conclude the novel, going backwards rather than forwards in tracing its art and politics. http://files.cultural-intertexts.webnode.com/200000351-ed98ced98e/171-181%20Praisler_Gheorghiu%20-%20The%20Art%20and%20Politics%20of%20Rewriting.%20Margaret%20Atwood%E2%80%99s%20Historical%20Notes%20on%20The%20Handmaid%E2%80%99s%20Tale.pdfmetafictionrewritingauthenticityintertextualitycanon
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title	The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
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title_full	The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
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title_full_unstemmed	The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale
title_sort	art and politics of rewriting. margaret atwood’s historical notes on the handmaid’s tale
publisher	Casa Cărții de Știință
series	Cultural Intertexts
issn	2393-0624 2393-1078
publishDate	2019-12-01
description	Among the many frameworks of interpretation that Margaret Atwood’s dystopia (or ustopia, as she calls it) The Handmaid’s Tale allows, a particularly challenging one is its reading in/as palimpsest. Choosing not to favour an attempt at hierarchizing the narrative construction and the fabula contained in Offred’s spoken tale – transcribed from audiocassettes two centuries after the deployment of the Christian fundamentalist coup d’état that turned the United States into a horrifying inferno for women –, and also leaving on the sidelines the seductive, yet rather facile feminist evaluation that the novel invites, this paper focuses on metafiction and the rewriting of “herstory”, in an analysis of the ‘Historical Notes’ that conclude the novel, going backwards rather than forwards in tracing its art and politics.
topic	metafiction rewriting authenticity intertextuality canon
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The Art and Politics of Rewriting. Margaret Atwood’s Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale

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