Margaret Atwood’s Visions and Revisions of "The Wizard of Oz"

  1. Gibert, Teresa 1
  1. 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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Revista:
Journal of English Studies

ISSN: 1576-6357

Ano de publicación: 2019

Número: 17

Páxinas: 175-195

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.18172/JES.3578 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939) play an important intertextual role in Margaret Atwood’s critical and fictional writings. Atwood has often been inspired by both versions of this modern fairy tale and has drawn attention to the main issues it raises (e.g. the transformative power of words, gendered power relationships, the connection between illusion and reality, the perception of the artist as a magician, and different notions of home). She has creatively explored and exploited themes, settings, visual motifs, allegorical content and characters (Dorothy, her three companions, the Wizard and the witches, especially Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West), subversively adapting her literary borrowings with a parodic twist and satirical intent. Parts of Life Before Man (1979) may be interpreted as a rewrite of a story defined by Atwood as “the great American witchcraft classic”.

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