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Un/Covered Origins. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, April 2009, Pages: 160
Mythology gives shape to experience and provides a
framework in which to locate oneself. However, women,
in classical mythology, were either denied a
representation and, thus, a history and genealogy, or
they were portrayed ambiguously, making it difficult
for women to find their own identity. Katrin M.
Fennesz focuses on the representation of women in
novels by the Canadian author Aritha van Herk and
analyzes how she transports women’s fictional lives
into our postmodern world by using and abusing
classical, biblical, and indigenous mythology.
Ultimately, she demonstrates that van Herk succeeds
in creating a new mythology by digging deep to
discover women’s original strengths and powers. In
the end, mythological characters are given new life,
women a voice, the landscape is granted its own
identity, and the city of Calgary its own face. This
study is aimed at students and scholars in the field
of Canadian Literary Studies.
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