Dimensions
130 x 199 x 8mm
A Teach Yourself - Key Figures Beginner's Guide.
This book gives beginning readers of Angela Carter, her students and her fans a sense of the breadth, the variety and the richness of her work. Her writing is amusing, ironic and Gothic, providing a critique of the gender and power relations amongst which we live and through which we create our identities.
Winged women, music hall, werewolves, Bluebeard and his wives and Beauty and the Best are some of the characters, areas and tales Angela Carter explores and re-writes.
Gina Wisker's text explores how Carter:
- Re-writes fairytales and popular myths to explore gender relations
- Reveal contradictions, relations of power and gender in society, and the ways men and women are represented and construct their identities
- Celebrates women's energies in different moments of time
- Mixes rich imagery, paradox, symbols and beautifully written descriptions
- Works with the forms and themes of horror, science fiction, music hall, pantomime and romance to entertain and to explore ourselves and our cultures
The facts . . . the concepts . . . the ideas . . .
