Female Appropriation of the Plot in Contemporary Literature
Female Appropriation of the Plot in Contemporary Literature

Summary/Abstract: Appropriation of the plot by a female narrator supplies familiar plots with new gender dimensions and discursive repercussions. Gloria Cigman’s A Wife There Was rewrites Canterbury Tales as the Wife of Bath’s memoir, in Coetzee’s Foe the female narrator turns Robinson Crusoe’s story into a political parable, and Mirjana Đurđević’s Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American reinvents the author’s self.

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