Feminist Retelling

myth:feminist_retelling

A wave of retellings gives voice to the women the myths passed over: Atwood's Penelopiad speaks for Penelope and her hanged maids, Miller's Circe for the witch of the lonely isle, and others for Briseis, for the Trojan women, for the Gorgon herself. The abandoned and the monstered — Medea, Ariadne, Medusa — are heard at last from their own side. — contemporary literature