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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Rewriting the Body
• Subtitle: Desire, Gender and Power in Selected Novels by Angela Carter
• Author: Julia Simon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295
• EAN: 9783631533765
• ISBN: 9783631533765
• ID: 10027332
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 210 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. October 2004

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