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2020-12
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This article is concerned with herstories and the retelling of myths. For the purpose of the present research, we will analyse Madeline Miller’s Circe and compare it to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. North-American author Madeline Miller gives voice to goddess and sorceress Circe, protagonist of this book inhabited by other Homeric characters. For its part, The Penelopiad is a novella written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in a series of rewritings of myths. In this book, based on the Homeric Odyssey, the focus is turned to Penelope, wife of Odysseus, who tells us her story from the Hades, as well as to her maids, hanged by Telemachus after Odysseus’s return. Both books are, therefore, related to Greek mythology and, more precisely, to Homer’s Odyssey. Both authors aim at retelling those myths through a female perspective, making use of herstory in order to do so. Analysing the novels from the perspective of feminism, we will see how the authors make their revisions of a canonical work in order to give voice to previously silenced voices in history how they present their female characters by calling myths into question, and, therefore, by challenging male authority and patriarchal society.
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The registered version of this article, first published in GAUDEAMUS, No. 0, 2020, pp. 9–25, is available online from the publisher's website: https://asyras.org/making-herstory-a-reading-of-millers-circe-and-atwoods-penelopiad/.
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en GAUDEAMUS, nº 0, 2020, pp. 9-25, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://asyras.org/making-herstory-a-reading-of-millers-circe-and-atwoods-penelopiad/.
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herstory, myths, women, Odyssey, feminism
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Díaz Morillo, Ester. “Making Herstory: A Reading of Miller’s Circe and Atwood’s Penelopiad.” GAUDEAMUS, nº 0, 2020, pp. 9-25.
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas