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Rewriting the Body

Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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: and . 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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-53376-5 / 978-3631533765 / 9783631533765

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2004

Seiten: 280

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Julia Simon

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