Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'

ISBN-13: 9780367140281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 202 str.

Anna Watz

Opis

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Though the translation was never published, the project confirmed and consolidated Carter’s interest in surrealism, representation, gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new surrealist-feminist aesthetic. Carter’s engagement with surrealist aesthetics, politics, and scholarship 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, Watz is the first to trace how Carter was influenced by the surrealist movement.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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