From Reading to Writing-Bodily Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale

• 作者: 李钰煊
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: The Handmaid’s Tale FEMINISM BODY gaze“ Ecriture Feminine”
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（14）
• 页码范围: 215-218
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I106

摘要

Margaret Atwood’s works have been carried out around the problems faced by women in modern society.The Hand⁃maid’s Tale is no exception;it focuses on problems related to the female body.This paper,with the help of Foucault’s theory and feminist theories,discusses the protagonist’s resistance through the body and how this resistance develops from reading to writing.Her reading,achieved through the means of gaze,involves reading the textual materials and the subtext of the natural and social surroundings.Her writing,achieved through the means of female writing,serves as the protagonist’s most significant and effective resistance against the patriarchal dictatorship.