num_pages: 216
description: Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist postmodernist and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris Lessing to Toni Morrison Wilson examines meanings of myths and fairy tales as well as their varying techniques images intertexts and genres. Although the writers represent several different nationalities and racial ethnic and cultural backgrounds they employ a type of postcolonial literature that urges readers and societies beyond colonization. Wilson argues that the use of myths and fairy tales generally convey characters' transformation from alienation and symbolic amputation to greater consciousness community and wholeness and it is in and through story that characters construct a hybrid way of establishing themselves in the larger world.
language: English
title: Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction: From Atwood to Morrison
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan