Thus, the author makes sure to establish that this is 'herstory' meaning that the events are told from a woman's perspective in contrast to traditional historiography, which has always been narrated by male authors (Spongberg, 2002). The Penelopiad is named after the eponymous heroine, Penelope, imitating the title of the original story named after Odysseus and is also inspired by Homer's Iliad. In The Penelopiad, Atwood commits to work on those gaps that the original narrative did not resolve for the audience by deploying a woman's perspective. Consequently, Atwood includes events that do not originally appear in the story because the focus is on Penelope. Penelope, the protagonist, tells the story of her life because she intends to give her version of the events from The Odyssey by Homer. The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood that revisits the story of The Odyssey by Homer.
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