Journal Issue:
Fiction, Religion and Politics in The Handmaid’s Tale

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dc.contributor.editorFritz, Natalie
dc.contributor.editorPezzoli-Olgiati, Daria
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-27T11:39:56Z
dc.date.available2024-05-27T11:39:56Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractSince its publication in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel by Margaret Atwood, has had an enormous impact on different media productions, from opera to graphic novel to a much-acclaimed TV series. The novel develops a disturbing vision of the theocratic, totalitarian state Gilead. The narrator records fragments of her everyday life as a “handmaid”, one of the women assigned as slaves to the elite’s families for reproductive purposes. Atwood’s novel points out how religious and political fanaticism fuel social violence, inequality, and the abolishment of individual rights. With its clear articulation of widespread fears concerning contemporary democracy and its future – dystopian – developments, The Handmaid’s Tale has become a global cultural phenomenon. The articles gathered in this issue approach the complex interdependence of fiction, religion and politics in The Handmaid’s Tale in light of the novel of 1985 and the Hulu series that started in 2017. The articles by Friedhelm Hartenstein, Ann Jeffers, and Bina Nir offer a close reading of the use of biblical references in the novel, analysing the ambivalent role of religion in the (de-)legitimation of a destructive political power. Simon Spiegel focuses on the TV series and explores the transformation of the dystopian novel into a serial drama, and the paradoxical challenges of the serie’s success. The articles of the thematic section are introduced by the editors’ contribution that describes the processes of the narrative’s diffusion across media and contexts, and the hermeneutical power of this dystopian universe to address the interplay of religion and politics.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22118
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/issue/view/19
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23501
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.subjectTheocracyen
dc.subjectFanaticismen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectDystopiaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMargaret Atwood
dc.subject.workTHE HANDMAID’S TALE
dc.titleFiction, Religion and Politics in The Handmaid’s Taleen
dc.typePeriodicalPart
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeJournalIssue
local.coverpage2024-05-28T02:31:30
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/issue/view/19
local.source.issue1
local.source.volume10
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118646168
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183492
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25207350

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