La construcción genérica de lo femenino en la narrativa anglófona contemporánea de contenido religioso

Abstract

Applying a multidisciplinary approach, this Ph D Project offers the analysis of four novels written by contemporary anglophone women authors (three of whom are British writers�Angela Carter, Jane Rogers and Michèle Roberts� and one of them a celebrated Canadian author�Margaret Atwood�), from the perspective of feminist theory, theology and literacy cristicism. The main purpose of this study is to illustrate the work of revision at a literary and theological level that these four authors carry out in their novels. In them, they will deconstruct and demystify archetypical female figures belonging to the Christian tradition such as Eve, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, as well as other accepted role models like the woman saint. In similar ways, The Passin of New Eve by Carter and The Handmaid�s Tale by Atwood explore the fantastic, and specifically the dystopian mode, whereas Mr Wroe�s Virgins and Impossible Saints, by Rogers and Roberts, respectively, can be considered as valuable rewritings of canonical texts in their own right.