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The The Bible, Religion, and Power in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Close Reading from the Perspective of Biblical Scholarship

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dc.creatorHartenstein, Friedhelm
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-27T11:39:57Z
dc.date.available2024-05-27T11:39:57Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a close reading of Atwood’s famous novel from the perspective of biblical scholarship. Anyone who reads The Handmaid’s Tale will readily notice how strongly biblical texts inform the narrative and the fictional world of Gilead. This relationship begins with Genesis 30:1–3, which appears as an epigraph. Religion in all its complexity is a cornerstone of the novel. The article looks at its threefold use of religion: as a biblically based foundation of the ideology and power structures of Gilead, as an anthropological foil for the leitmotif of seeing and being seen in Offred’s story, and as a point of departure and reference for the main character’s personal reflections. The article limits itself to observations based on the novel as first published in 1985.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.10:2024.1.2
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22113
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/381
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23505
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectBibleen
dc.subjectOld Testamenten
dc.subjectPower and Reproductionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:800
dc.subject.personMargaret Atwood
dc.subject.workTHE HANDMAID’S TALE
dc.titleThe The Bible, Religion, and Power in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Close Reading from the Perspective of Biblical Scholarshipen
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local.coverpage2024-05-28T02:31:01
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/381
local.source.epage46
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage25
local.source.volume10
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118646168
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/4460070-7
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183492
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1541914

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