Filling in What Was Left out : Voices and Silences of Biblical Women
(2009) Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English — ISBN: [1443812471], published
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- This paper devoted to Michèle Roberts’s "The Wild Girl" (1984) and "The Book of Mrs Noah" (1987), as well as Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985), explores how, in these novels reconfiguring female biblical figures, Roberts and Atwood have filled the gaps and silences of the Bible and created alternative religious and/or social discourses. The analysis will focus on the way their self-conscious female I-narrators challenge the monologism of the dominant male discourse, the notion of truth, the authority of language and of any narrative, at the risk of paradoxically ending up silencing themselves.
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Bertrand, I. (2009). Filling in What Was Left out : Voices and Silences of Biblical Women. In Vanessa Guignery (ed.), Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/61584