Nolite te bastardes carborundorum: the survival’s narrative in the handmaid’s tale, by Margaret Atwood
This paper analyses the narrative of Offred in the novel The Hadmaid’s Tale, focusing on the exploration of its testimonial composition. In dialogue with the works of Agamben (2008), Felman (2000), SeligmannSilva (2002) and Gagnebin (2009) about testimony, we demonstrate how the fictional constructi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Signótica (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/68848 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/68848 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Testemunho; Memória; Margaret Atwood; Romance contemporâneo. Testimony; Memoir; Margaret Atwood; Contemporary novel. |
| Sumario: | This paper analyses the narrative of Offred in the novel The Hadmaid’s Tale, focusing on the exploration of its testimonial composition. In dialogue with the works of Agamben (2008), Felman (2000), SeligmannSilva (2002) and Gagnebin (2009) about testimony, we demonstrate how the fictional construction of the narrative incorporates, in its constitution, the formal imprints and the ethical and esthetical dilemmas that are quintessential of the testimony literature. |
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