Distorted Shadows: Power And Subjugated Women In Margret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
The focus of this paper is in postmodern and dystopian fiction in relation to Margret Atwood‟s The Handmaid‟s Tale. It sets out to examine the representations and roles women in the novel. It is important to analyze patriarchal discourses that position women as the inferiors in the power relations. This study is especially significant because it is, to the best of my knowledge, the first to adopt Foucauldianfeminist reading of the novel. The research approach adopted in this paper includes feminist analysis ofpower, discourse and female subjects in The Handmaid‟s Tale. It draws on Foucault‟s concepts of discourse, power, surveillance, and the panopticon.However, the paper adopts a feminist perspective in applying these concepts. The paper concludes that subjecting women in the novel is a systematic process, which produces them as always the inferiors.
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Nuha S. Alotaibi
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