"Utopian re-visioning" : Angela Carter’s feminist Utopia in the bloody chamber and other stories
My reading of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories understands Carter’s text as a feminist political project emblematic of feminist utopian thought. I use the term “feminist utopia” in a similar sense to the feminist utopia formulated by Lucy Sargisson in Contemporary Feminist Utopia...
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| author | Ang, Tabitha Shuqi |
| author2 | Yong Wern Mei |
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| description | My reading of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories understands Carter’s text as a feminist political project emblematic of feminist utopian thought. I use the term “feminist utopia” in a similar sense to the feminist utopia formulated by Lucy Sargisson in Contemporary Feminist Utopianism and Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression. As such, I focus on Carter’s feminist utopian vision aligned with the feminist utopia that Sargisson posits, a “feminist utopian expression” manifested on the level of the narrative and is based on form rather than content. By employing Adrienne Rich’s concept of writing as re-visioning, I discuss how Carter’s feminist utopian re-visioning enters into the intertextuality of old forms such as the fairy tale genre and the pornographic masculine text to assail male-dominated histories and ideologies. Through these two narrative strategies, I suggest that Carter’s feminist utopia gestures towards an opening of new conceptual spaces for exploration and exploitation in projects of emancipation for women. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/387322019-12-10T12:17:10Z "Utopian re-visioning" : Angela Carter’s feminist Utopia in the bloody chamber and other stories Ang, Tabitha Shuqi Yong Wern Mei School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English My reading of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories understands Carter’s text as a feminist political project emblematic of feminist utopian thought. I use the term “feminist utopia” in a similar sense to the feminist utopia formulated by Lucy Sargisson in Contemporary Feminist Utopianism and Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression. As such, I focus on Carter’s feminist utopian vision aligned with the feminist utopia that Sargisson posits, a “feminist utopian expression” manifested on the level of the narrative and is based on form rather than content. By employing Adrienne Rich’s concept of writing as re-visioning, I discuss how Carter’s feminist utopian re-visioning enters into the intertextuality of old forms such as the fairy tale genre and the pornographic masculine text to assail male-dominated histories and ideologies. Through these two narrative strategies, I suggest that Carter’s feminist utopia gestures towards an opening of new conceptual spaces for exploration and exploitation in projects of emancipation for women. Bachelor of Arts 2010-05-18T02:06:31Z 2010-05-18T02:06:31Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38732 en Nanyang Technological University 38 p. application/pdf |
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| title_full | "Utopian re-visioning" : Angela Carter’s feminist Utopia in the bloody chamber and other stories |
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| title_full_unstemmed | "Utopian re-visioning" : Angela Carter’s feminist Utopia in the bloody chamber and other stories |
| title_short | "Utopian re-visioning" : Angela Carter’s feminist Utopia in the bloody chamber and other stories |
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