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Reliving the past for recreating the present in Margaret Atwood's selected poems
Other Title(s)
استرجاع الماضي لإعادة خلق الحاضر في قصائد مختارة لمارجريت آتوود
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Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 130 (30 Sep. 2019), pp.131-150, 20 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Arts
Publication Date
2019-09-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
20
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Abstract EN
For centuries poets tend to utilize the past in their poetry, however their approaches are various.
The Canadian icon and phenomenal poet and novelist Margaret Atwood's approach is unique as she revise while others simply retell past stories.
She delves deeply into the rich past, reliving its stories whether it was taken from myths, history, or fairy tales, revising them to present a new version of the old stories, but this time from women's perspective.
She invested heavily in the past to recreate something new, something that is going to make the present liveable and to fortify the future.
Her literary oeuvre is rich with revised poems.
The poems usually tackle serious issues that affect the lives of women.
She chooses the victimized muted misrepresented female protagonists, those who were silenced and subjugated by patriarch society, revising them and endows them with voices, awareness, power, free-will and autonomous identity.
Reliving the past and recreating of the gendered prescribed roles is a means of survival that will help women to properly live the present and ensure a better future.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Wattar, Shayma Zuhayr. 2019. Reliving the past for recreating the present in Margaret Atwood's selected poems. al-Adab Journal،Vol. 2019, no. 130, pp.131-150.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899501
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Wattar, Shayma Zuhayr. Reliving the past for recreating the present in Margaret Atwood's selected poems. al-Adab Journal No. 130 (Sep. 2019), pp.131-150.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899501
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Wattar, Shayma Zuhayr. Reliving the past for recreating the present in Margaret Atwood's selected poems. al-Adab Journal. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 130, pp.131-150.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899501
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes margin notes : p. 147-148
Record ID
BIM-899501