Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf's Novel Medea. Voices
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Medea (1996) is Wolf’s artistic answer to personal and political disillusionment. She strips away the ancient vilification of Medea as a child-killing witch. Instead, Wolf presents Medea as a rational, healing barbarian woman who becomes a scapegoat for the corrupt, patriarchal society of Corinth. The novel’s central argument is revolutionary: Medea did not kill her children. That murder was a later literary invention by Euripides (and, Wolf argues, by a fearful male-dominated tradition). In Wolf’s version, the Corinthians kill the children to frame Medea, allowing the city to project its own violence onto an outsider. Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf's Novel Medea