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• ISBN: 9781137289865
• Physical Description: vii, 207 pages ; 22 cm.
• Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave MacMillan, c2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Margaret Attwood's Monstrous, Dismembered, Cannibalized, and (Sometimes) Reborn Female Bodies: The Robber Bride and Other Texts -- Fitcher's and Frankenstein's Gaze in Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- The Writer as Crone Goddess in Atwood's The Penelopiad and Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor -- Mythic Quests for the Word and Postcolonial Identity: Lessing's The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog and Morrison's Beloved -- Erdrich's Community as Home: The Wizard of Oz, The Ramayana, and Greek and Native American Myth in the Beet Queen -- Silenced Women in Rosario Ferre's The Youngest Doll: "Sleeping Beauty," "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 Keri Hulme's The Bone People.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- > Criticism and interpretation.
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013 > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 > Criticism and interpretation.
Feminism and literature > English-speaking countries > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries > History > 20th century.
Fairy tales in literature > English-speaking countries.
Myth in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Sex role in literature.