New norms of gender and emergence of identity crisis in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale
Using Butler's theory of gender performativity and her analysis of the psychic form of power, this paper attempts to show how the modification of gender by power in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has resulted in an identity crisis in the female protagonist, Offred. One signif...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12881/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12881/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12881/1/20490-71907-1-PB.pdf |