scholarly journals “The Lady of the House of Love” y “The Scarlet House” de Angela Carter: el conocimiento histórico y la caverna de Platón

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Emilio José Álvarez Castaño
Keyword(s):  
Angela Carter

La obra de Angela Carter ha sido estudiada habitualmente desde el feminismo y el postmodernismo. Sin negar este hecho, el presente artículo quiere destacar la importancia de la Historia en la obra de Carter centrándose en el análisis de sus relatos “The Lady of the House of Love” y “The Scarlet House”. Las ideas que tenía Carter al respecto, enmarcadas muchas de ellas en la postmodernidad, pueden encontrar acomodo en diferentes aproximaciones dentro de la filosofía de la Historia, lo que permitiría una interpretación en clave histórica de estas dos narraciones, un hecho que la propia Carter admite al aceptar la multiplicidad de lecturas en una obra literaria. Puesto que las protagonistas de ambos relatos están confinadas en espacios que desean abandonar, se destaca en dicho contexto la relevancia de la caverna de Platón.

scholarly journals "E a Bela dançou...": subvertendo o belo feminino dos contos de fadas

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Martins
Keyword(s):  
Angela Carter

Resumo: Este trabalho pretende demonstrar como Barbara G. Walker e Angela Carter subvertem, de forma nada convencional, noções de beleza feminina, típicas dos contos de fadas, ao relerem a versão canônica do conto "A Bela e a Fera", de Madame Jeanne-MarieLeprince de Beaumont em "Uglyand The Beast" e em "The Tiger's Bride", respectivamente, a partir de uma nova direção crítica. Na discussão, avaliam-se o impacto revisionista do emprego de táticas narrativas (como as inversões), os contrastes paródicos e também o grau de ruptura alcançado nas releituras investigadas, no que concerne à questão da beleza, e considera-se também como o revisionismo elabora o trabalho ficcional com o insólito por intermédio do elemento metaempírico (sobrenatural).

Female Vampirism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Wisker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Angela Carter ◽  
Social Conformity ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Constant Tension

This chapter examines how fictional vampires problematise received notions of women’s passivity, ‘natural’ nurturing skills and social conformity, suggesting that female vampires destabilise such comfortable, culturally inflected investments. Performativity, abjection and carnival lie at the heart of their construction and representation so there is a constant tension between punishment and celebration of their transgressive nature. Ranging across a number of nineteenth-century texts, it is suggested that they can be read as indicating gaps and fissures in social certainties and as nightmares emanating from the zones of patriarchy. In the twentieth century powerful female vampires may be found in the fiction of Angela Carter, who provide templates for later authors. In these later texts and in various lesbian vampire fictions, vampires become liberating, feminist figures: sexually transgressive, they undermine received certainties of identity, family, and hierarchy based on gender, sexuality and ethnicity. But they can also represent the energy of social activism as in Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Greedy Choke Puppy’. The chapter concludes with an analysis of two recent dramatic works by Ana Lily Amirpour and Moira Buffini, in which vampires are shown as becoming angels of mercy and women become self-sufficient, despite poverty and vulnerability.

Staging Angela Carter

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Frances Babbage
Keyword(s):  
Angela Carter
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