A SUBVERSÃO FEMININA NA REESCRITA DO MITO DE PENÉLOPE EM A ODISSEIA DE PENÉLOPE, DE MARGARET ATWOOD
Journal Title: Ideação - Year 2020, Vol 22, Issue 1
Abstract
An analysis of The Penelopiad (2005), by Margaret Atwood is provided by feminist criticism. The aim is to analyze the rewriting of The Odyssey, by Homer, that gives speech to Penelope, making her a protagonist. The feminist criticism illuminates the evolution of feminine authorship, as well as the representation of female characters who, from stereotyped ones, became more independent, bold and unruly, as the female conquests rose in social areas. This work is bibliographical and uses theories about feminisms as social movements, as well as the feminist theory in literature, in authors such as Alves and Pitanguy (1985), Beauvoir (1980 a and b), Woolf (2019), Michel (1982), Showalter (2014), Bordieu (2019), and others. The analysis reveals that this new Penelope, who analyses and retells her own story three thousand years after her death, is questioning and rebellious. She understands her own submissive rule in the past, she unveils Odisseus’ false heroism of, and gives voice to the hanged women slaves, what was minimized in The Odyssey. She denounces this injustice, revealing that in men’s view the slaves were dirty and liars, but for Penelope they were friends who helped her. This Penelope symbolizes the female evolution both in social rules and in literary representation, because from submissive, fragile and silent, she became insurgent, self-conscious and worthy of protagonism.
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Elis Regina Fernandes Alves, Sara Almieira da Rocha
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