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Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?
2022. urn:nbn:hr:186:432791
Vuković, Diana
University of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Vuković, D. (2022). Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale? (Undergraduate thesis). Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

Vuković, Diana. "Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?." Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

Vuković, Diana. "Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?." Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

Vuković, D. (2022). 'Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?', Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 12 July 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

Vuković D. Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale? [Undergraduate thesis]. Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2022 [cited 2024 July 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

D. Vuković, "Margaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?", Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, 2022. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:432791

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TitleMargaret Atwood's the Testaments: Sequel as Feminist Revision of the Handmaid's Tale?
AuthorDiana Vuković
MentorAntonija Primorac (mentor)
GranterUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Rijeka
Defense date and country2022-09-19, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Abstract
Feminism as women’s struggle for equal rights has been an ongoing process in American society which has faced backlash periodically. However, the backlash against feminism has not always been direct, and has taken different shapes in the U.S. media. Both the aggressive direct response and the indirect undermining of women’s rights were imaginatively used and described in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and its follow-up novel The Testaments (2019). The Handmaid’s Tale indicated the dangerous possibility of easily stripping women of their hardly won rights which were here lost due to the mass passivity, while The Testaments explores the fight against the totalitarian patriarchal regime described in The Handmaid’s Tale. This thesis will explore the relationship between the two novels in such a way that the sequel will be read as a feminist revision of The Handmaid’s Tale which was written at a time when postfeminism was widespread in American society. The Testaments could serve as a warning about the consequences of postfeminism, while The Handmaid’s Tale directly describes how deeply postfeminism was rooted, not only in society, but also in the individual, and highlights the importance of organised struggle against totalitarian ideas and regimes.
Abstract (croatian)
Feminizam kao ženska borba za ostvarivanje jednakih prava je kontinuirani proces u američkom društvu koji povremeno doživljava otpor. Međutim, otpor prema feminizmu nije uvijek bio izravan te se u američkim medijima pojavljivao u različitim oblicima. Agresivne i izravne reakcije kao i neizravno narušavanje prava žena su maštovito upotrijebljene i opisane u romanu Margaret Atwood Sluškinjina priča (1985.) i njegovom nastavku Svjedočanstva (2019.). Sluškinjina priča je ukazala na opasnu mogućnost lakog oduzimanja prava žena, za koje su se jedva izborile, zbog masovne pasivnosti. Svjedočanstva zamišljaju borbu protiv totalitarnog režima koji je opisan u Sluškinjinoj priči. Ovaj rad istražuje odnos između dva romana tako da se nastavak smatra feminističkom revizijom Sluškinjine priče koja je napisana u vrijeme kada je postfeminizam bio rasprostranjen u američkom društvu. Svjedočanstva bi mogla poslužiti kao upozorenje o posljedicama postfeminizma, dok Sluškinjina priča izravno opisuje koliko je duboko postfeminizam ukorijenjen, ne samo u društvu, nego i u pojedincu, te ističe važnost organiziranog otpora protiv totalitarnih ideja i režima.
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URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:186:432791
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Pedagogy (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea)pedagogije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea)pedagogije)
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