Comparing Wolf In 'The Company Of Wolves And Wolf Alice'
Question :
Compare and contrast the representations of wolves in Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” and “Wolf Alice”. How successful do Carter’s literary appropriations demythologise gender stereotypes.
Introduction
In The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s short stories took a particularly conservative genre and radically subverted it for feminist purposes, deconstructing and demythologizing gender stereotypes in a very creative manner. Fairy-tales were always a very traditionalist and patriarchal literary form, first recorded by aristocratic writers in the 17th and 18th Centuries as moralistic and cautionary stories for children. Politically, their agenda was the exact opposite of Carter, whose feminist views were forged in the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Therefore, none of her female heroines follow these traditional gender roles of being passive victims or the sex objects of men. In “Wolf Alice”, the nameless female heroine was raised by wolves and was therefore on outcast in human society, unable to assume the passive and domestic gender roles expected of her, …show more content…
Baker, Charley, “’Nobody’s Meat’: Revisiting Rape and Sexual Trauma through Angela Carter” in Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susan Onega (eds), Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction. Amsterdam: Editions Randopi, 2009: 61-83.
2. Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories. Vintage Carter, 2006
3. Crafts, Charlotte, “Curiously Down Hybrid or Radical Retelling? Neil Jordan’s and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves” in Deborah Cantwell et al (eds), Sisterhoods: Feminists in Film and Fiction. London, Pluto Press, 1998.
4. Makinen, Merja, “Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality” in Feminist Review: Issue 42: Feminist Fictions. The Feminist Review Collective, Autumn 1992.
5. Walker, Nancy A. The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition. University of Texas Press,
Compare and contrast the representations of wolves in Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” and “Wolf Alice”. How successful do Carter’s literary appropriations demythologise gender stereotypes.
Introduction
In The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s short stories took a particularly conservative genre and radically subverted it for feminist purposes, deconstructing and demythologizing gender stereotypes in a very creative manner. Fairy-tales were always a very traditionalist and patriarchal literary form, first recorded by aristocratic writers in the 17th and 18th Centuries as moralistic and cautionary stories for children. Politically, their agenda was the exact opposite of Carter, whose feminist views were forged in the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Therefore, none of her female heroines follow these traditional gender roles of being passive victims or the sex objects of men. In “Wolf Alice”, the nameless female heroine was raised by wolves and was therefore on outcast in human society, unable to assume the passive and domestic gender roles expected of her, …show more content…
Baker, Charley, “’Nobody’s Meat’: Revisiting Rape and Sexual Trauma through Angela Carter” in Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susan Onega (eds), Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction. Amsterdam: Editions Randopi, 2009: 61-83.
2. Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories. Vintage Carter, 2006
3. Crafts, Charlotte, “Curiously Down Hybrid or Radical Retelling? Neil Jordan’s and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves” in Deborah Cantwell et al (eds), Sisterhoods: Feminists in Film and Fiction. London, Pluto Press, 1998.
4. Makinen, Merja, “Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality” in Feminist Review: Issue 42: Feminist Fictions. The Feminist Review Collective, Autumn 1992.
5. Walker, Nancy A. The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition. University of Texas Press,