The Creative Word in Atwood’s The Robber Bride: Towards New Female Identities

Abstract

The Robber Bride di Margaret Atwood è un’accurata analisi delle frammentarie identità delle tre protagoniste femminili e del loro profondo desiderio di libertà e completezza. Il romanzo mette in discussione i comuni stereotipi maschilisti e la definizione patriarcale dell’identità femminile. L’esigenza delle protagoniste di trovare nuovi nomi per se stesse, nei quali identificare una parte del loro io, fa emergere con chiarezza la molteplicità della natura femminile e l’esigenza di distruggere l’inflessibile categorizzazione patriarcale del mondo, fondata, come sostiene Raimon Panikkar, sul termine scientista. La parola creatrice di Margaret Atwood delinea confini più fluidi tra i generi e nuove possibilità per le generazioni future.

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