Myths and fairy tales in contemporary women's fiction: from Atwood to Morrison

Introduction

Margaret Atwood's monstrous, dismembered, cannibalized, and (sometimes) reborn female bodies : The robber bride and other texts

Fitcher's and Frankenstein's gaze in Atwood's Oryx and crake

The writer as crone goddess in Atwood's The Penelopiad and Lessing's The memoirs of a survivor

Mythic quests for the word and postcolonial identity : Lessing's The story of General Dann and Mara's daughter, Griot and the snow dog, and Morrison's Beloved

Erdrich's community as home : The wizard of Oz, the Ramayana, and Greek and Native American myth in The beet queen

Silenced women in Rosario Ferre's The youngest doll : "Sleeping Beauty," "The red shoes," "Cinderella," "Fitcher's bird"

Enchantment, transformation, and rebirth in Iris Murdoch's The green knight

Bluebeard's Forbidden room in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Fairy tales and myth in Keri Hulme's The bone people

Conclusion.