“The Old Maps Are Dissolving”: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood’s The Robber Bride

Donna L. Potts, Kansas State University
Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 1999), 281-298.

In consideration of the intersections between intertextuality and identity issues, this essay examines the ways in which Margaret Atwood’s intertextuality in The Robber Bride may be read both as a postcolonial attempt to devise a discourse that displaces the effects of the colonizing gaze while still under its influence and as a narrative that shows the effect of colonization on Canada to be inseparable from the effect of patriarchy on Canadian women. This essay argues for hybridization as a means of acknowledging and accepting multiplicity, which permits, indeed facilitates, political movement.

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