TY  - BOOK
AU  - Julia Simon
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0170-8848
TI  - Rewriting the Body
T2  - Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098371
N2  - 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.
KW  - Carter, Angela, The infernal desire machines of doctor Hoffman, Körper (Motiv), postmoderne Literatur, Poststrukturalismus, Feminismus, Gender, Körper /Literatur
LA  - English
ER  -