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Rewriting the Body: Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter - Couverture souple

Simon, Julia

 
9783631533765: Rewriting the Body: Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter
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ISBN 10 : 3631533764 ISBN 13 : 9783631533765
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2004

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Julia Simon studied English, German and Psychology in Freiburg im Breisgau, Norwich (Great Britain), Aberystwyth (Wales) and Eugene (USA). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 2004.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3631533764
ISBN 13 
9783631533765
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
295
Coordonnées du fabricant
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com

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