مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 20, Numéro 1, Pages 412-425
2026-06-11
“navigating Identity From Sea To Self:” Intertextual Echoes Of Anderson’s “the Little Mermaid” In Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle.
Authors : Ikram Lecheheb .
Abstract
In line with growing interests in the intertextual dimensions of literary works, this paper explores how Atwood infuses her novel with Intertextual references from Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid” to convey her protagonist’s chattered identity and fragmented memories. It further highlights that Atwood’s novel is deeply entrenched in her protagonist’s life choices and her struggle to change the status quo. In other words, it grapples with how Atwood uses the fairy tale as a tool to invite the reader to rethink of traditional discourses which she reverses, deconstructs to suggest and to form a new human view in a female perspective. The study also examines how the author problematizes the protagonist’s distorted figuration in a patriarchal world. Using what critics say about intertextuality and its use, the study finds out that Atwood’s rewrites multiple fairy tales as Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid” to reveal the vices in her society on female characters. For the sake of achieving these aims, the study uses a distillation of studies on intertextuality and fairy tales to unravel how drawing on and revisiting fairy tales, in Lady Oracle, is seen as a sort of empowerment of Atwood’s protagonist
Keywords
Intertextuality ; Margaret Atwood ; Lady Oracle ; Empowerment ; Representation ; and the Self.
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