Rewriting the Body
| Autor: | Simon, Julia |
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| EAN: | 9783631533765 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 300 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 19.10.2004 |
| Untertitel: | Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter |
| Schlagworte: | Frau / Gesellschaft, Politik, Recht Geschlechterforschung |
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The body has become a highly contested, political site in (post)modern literature and literary theory. In Angela Carter¿s work the image of the body is constructed around the tension between a post-structuralist notion of gender fluidity and a feminist reclaiming of the female body as a source of pleasure and power. This study examines the body politics in the last four novels Carter wrote between the seventies and the nineties: The Infernal Desire Machines, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist theory, it traces a development in Carter¿s fiction that moves from the pessimistic negation of a self-determined female corporeality to the assertion of the female body as a powerful site of alterity.
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