Re-Visioning Mythmaking: Contending Female Voices in Duffy’s The World’s Wife and Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Mythologies have long perpetuated the idea of patriarchal world order as they “justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs” (Graves 21). Revisionist Mythmaking, according to Ostriker, is an effective strategy to re-define female identity and to make “corrections” to constructed “images of what women have collectively and historically suffered” (73).