Gender and the chronotope : a feminist reading of the historical chronotope in margaret atwood's the penelopiad (2005)‎

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This paper seeks to examine the historical chronotope in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad from a feminist point of view.

Amid the escalating postmodern concerns in re-examining history, feminist revisionism started to foreground the academic spheres as a result of the active role that second wave feminists play in seeking historical justice for women's representation.

Through following analytical and descriptive methods, this article aims at unveiling the pivotal role of feminist writers such as Margaret Atwood in rewriting history and claiming women's voice in a world characterized by masculine supremacy.

Towards this end, this article relies on views of J.

F Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon about historical metafiction and Metanarratives in order to examine how Margaret Atwood has deconstructed the image of females in Greek mythology through offering a different reading of Homer's The Odyssey, allowing the story to be recounted from a feminine point of view