« Time’s a trap » ou la notion de perspective dans Les Mille et une nuits et The Handmaid’s Tale

Authors

  • Aurélie Le Formal

Abstract

“Time's a trap”: the Poetics of Perspective in The Arabian Nights and The Handmaid’s TaleThe essay analyses the dystopian dimension of the framing narrative of the Arabian Nights through thelens of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, reexamining the heroines’ agency regarding thespatial, temporal and subversive perspectives. It explores the pattern of the night and raises the questionof the heroines’ social position and subjectivity through narrative choices and enunciative strategydeployed. Keywords: Atwood; Shahrâzâd; perspective; nights; dystopia; subversion

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Published

2024-06-14

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Section

I. Dystopia: Traditions, Genre Dynamics, Directions of Transformation