Angela Carter and Surrealism

'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'

Anna Watz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
9780367140281 (ISBN)

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In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation, gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new surrealist-feminist aesthetic. Carter’s sustained engagement with surrealist aesthetics and politics as well as surrealist scholarship aptly demonstrates what is at stake for feminism at the intersection of avant-garde aesthetics and the representation of women and female desire. Drawing on previously unexplored archival material, such as typescripts, journals, and letters, Anna Watz’s study is the first to trace the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by the surrealist movement and its critical heritage. Watz’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on Angela Carter as well as to contemporary feminist debates on surrealism, and will appeal to scholars across the fields of contemporary British fiction, feminism, and literary and visual surrealism.

Anna Watz is Senior Lecturer in English, Linköping University, Sweden.

1. Introduction 2. ‘The Problem of Woman’: Surrealist Femininities and Masculinities 3. The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance 4. Surrealist Desire in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 5. The Sadeian Woman and Surréalisme et sexualité 6. The Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic of The Passion of New Eve 7. Conclusion: Feminist-Surrealist Bricolage and Performativity

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Surrealism
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780367140281 / 9780367140281
Zustand	Neuware