Prayaag Akbar’s "Leila" and Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale": A Study on Dystopian Intersections

Juan Francisco Elices Agudo

doi:10.18172/jes.5548

Autores/as

Juan Francisco Elices Agudo University of Alcalá https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-010X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5548

Palabras clave:

Distopía, totalitarismo, regimentación, pasado, Akbar, Atwood

Resumen

El momento histórico tan turbulento que vivimos en la actualidad parece haber estimulado la producción de un sinfín de narrativas distópicas, que giran en torno a una gran variedad de temas. La publicación de The Handmaid’s Tale de Margaret Atwood, cuya versión televisiva se ha convertido en uno de los grandes éxitos de esta última década, se considera un nexo de unión entre las distopías clásicas de Zamyatin, Huxley y Orwell y las últimas novelas que se han editado en este campo, entre las que Leila de Prayaag Akbar destaca por su originalidad. El presente trabajo, que parte de algunos de los mejores estudios de la obra de Atwood y de la narrativa especulativa producida en India, trata de profundizar en las intersecciones que se pueden observar entre la obra maestra de la autora canadiense y la opera prima de Akbar. Este estudio analiza los tropos distópicos sobre los que se articulan las dos novelas, con especial interés en cuestiones relacionadas con la manipulación del pasado y la realidad constreñida y angustiosa a la que se tienen que enfrentar las dos protagonistas.

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Biografía del autor/a

Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, University of Alcalá

Department of Modern Philology

Senior Lecturer of English Literature

Head of the Language Centre

University of Alcalá

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