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Rereading And Rewriting Women's History, Jacqueline Harris
Rereading And Rewriting Women's History, Jacqueline Harris
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In Margaret Atwood’s nonfiction book Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002), Atwood discusses the importance of the female writer’s responsibility, that to write as a woman or about women means that you take upon yourself the responsibility of writing as a form of negotiation with our female dead and with what these dead took with them—the truth about who they were. By rereading and rewriting our communal past, women writers pay tribute to our female ancestors by voicing their silent stories while also changing gender stereotypes, complicating who these women were, and acknowledging their accomplishments.
In her …