« Time’s a trap » ou la notion de perspective dans Les Mille et une nuits et The Handmaid’s Tale
“Time's a trap”: the Poetics of Perspective in The Arabian Nights and The Handmaid’s Tale
Author(s): Aurélie LE FORMALSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Atwood; Shahrâzâd; perspective; nights; dystopia; subversion
Summary/Abstract: The essay analyses the dystopian dimension of the framing narrative of the Arabian Nights through the lens of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, reexamining the heroines’ agency regarding the spatial, temporal and subversive perspectives. It explores the pattern of the night and raises the question of the heroines’ social position and subjectivity through narrative choices and enunciative strategy deployed.
Journal: Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum
- Issue Year: 10/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 100-109
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French