desire, gender and power in selected novels
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Carter, Angela
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5894 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, lichamen, gender, macht, vrouwbeelden
- Description
- In Angela Carter's work the image of the body is constructed around the tension between a poststructuralist 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.