| Title: | Sartorial Rhetoric and Gender Roles in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber |
| Author: | Cornelia Macsiniuc |
| Publication: | Meridian Critic / Analele Universităţii „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava. Seria Filologie. A. Lingvistică, B. Literatură, 24 (1), Section Criticism. The discourse of clothing, p. 79-91 |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-6787 |
| Publisher: | Editura Universităţii din Suceava |
| Place: | Suceava |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | Angela Carter’s double allegiance to feminism and postmodernism involves a heightened consciousness of the fluid nature of gender identity, whose unambiguous representation she avoids programmatically. In The Bloody Chamber, she explores a multitude of possibilities of conceiving and representing femininity, masculinity, and gender relations. The present paper examines the sartorial rhetoric by which Carter complexifies and subverts entrenched perceptions and ideas. Clothes-related imagery which emphasizes artificiality, spectacle, ceremony, carnival, and the cultural implications of nakedness is shown to constitute part of her peculiar strategy of dealing with difference and otherness. |
| Key words: | gender relations, postmodern feminism, fairy tale, Camp, carnival, mask, nakedness, clothing, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber |
| Language: | English |
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