Margaret Atwood’s Visions and Revisions of "The Wizard of Oz"

Teresa Gibert

doi:10.18172/jes.3578

Autores/as

Teresa Gibert Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6194-9901

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.3578

Palabras clave:

Margaret Atwood, “El Mago de Oz”, “La vida antes del hombre”, cuentos de hadas, intertextualidad, parodia

Resumen

La novela de L. Frank Baum El maravilloso mago de Oz (1900) y la versión cinematográfica dirigida por Victor Fleming El mago de Oz (1939) desempeñan una importante función intertextual en las obras críticas y de ficción publicadas por Margaret Atwood. A menudo Atwood se inspira en ambas versiones de este cuento de hadas moderno y presta atención a las principales cuestiones planteadas por él (por ejemplo, el poder transformador de las palabras, las relaciones de poder asociadas al género, el juego entre ilusión y realidad, la percepción del artista como mago y los diferentes conceptos del hogar). Atwood ha explorado y utilizado de forma muy creativa determinados temas, escenarios, motivos visuales, el contenido alegórico y los personajes (Dorothy, sus tres compañeros, el Mago y las brujas, especialmente Glinda la Bruja Buena y la Malvada Bruja del Oeste), adaptando subversivamente sus préstamos literarios con giros paródicos e intención satírica. Cabe interpretar algunas secciones de La vida antes del hombre (1979) como reescrituras de un cuento que Atwood definió como “el gran clásico americano de la brujería”.

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Biografía del autor/a

Teresa Gibert, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Teresa Gibert is Full Professor of English at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid, where she teaches American and Canadian literature. She is the author of American Literature to 1900 (2001; 2nd ed. 2009). Her articles and essays have appeared in Ariel, Connotations and Journal of the Short Story in English, and in collected volumes such as T. S. Eliot at the Turn of the Century (Lund UP, 1994), T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English (Rodopi, 2001), Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth (PULM, 2007), Stories for Children, Histories of Childhood (PUFR, 2007), Postcolonial Ghosts (PULM, 2009), Stories Through Theories / Theories Through Stories (Michigan State UP, 2009), The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (Cambridge UP, 2009), Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (Rodopi, 2012), Traces of Aging. Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative (Transcript Verlag, 2016), Le jardin et ses mythes aux Etats-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne (PUR, 2017) and Representing Modern Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision (Brill/Rodopi, 2018).

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