Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-191) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion. Margaret Atwood'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 -- Conclusion.
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