Where Does the Gileadverse Go?: Adaptation and Transmediality in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

The ‘negative capability’ and openness of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) represents an ideal starting point for the building of a transmedia universe. Atwood explains that the expansion of a ‘Gileadverse’ started as a bottom-up process after fans eventually convinced the author to writ...

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Main Author: Nicolangelo Becce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2020-12-01
Series:Iperstoria
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Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/916