Medea is a very generative figure within Early Modern French Literature (La Péruse, 1556; P. Corneille, 1635; Th. Corneille, 1660; Longuepierre, 1694). Her myth has benefited from several feminist and postcolonial rewritings (Wolf, 1996; Agnant, 2001; Moraga, 2001; Bessora, 2004), all of which offer the opportunity to dislodge the canon and to hear different voices in various historical contexts. Recent scholarly analyses suggest that the myth can be read as a psychopolitical tale whose main character is assigned to a dominated position. However honorable Medea's knowledge and status have been in her past, as soon as she arrives in Corinth, she faces injustice. She tries to confront the hegemonic structure of the city, using its own procedures, but she fails, until violence imposes itself as her only way out. Her subordination does not only proceed from her gender, but also from her representation as “the subaltern, the Other, the misfit, the stranger” (Kekis, 2010). In Corneille’...