Angela Carter
A Câmara Sangrenta e Outras Histórias
Angela Carter
Originalmente lançados em 1979, os contos aqui reunidos são prova da sofisticação e criatividade de Angela Carter. Ao se apropriar de histórias folclóricas como Chapeuzinho Vermelho e a Bela e a Fera, além de personagens míticos como vampiros, lobisomens e entidades sobrenaturais, a autora reconstrói um universo realista que bebe no fantástico. Como quem desmancha um quebra-cabeça, ela reposiciona as peças do feminino, da violência, da sexualidade e do heroísmo em um imaginário inovador e indiferente aos paradigmas de sua época.
Embora pouco conhecida no Brasil, Angela Carter é considerada uma das principais escritoras inglesas do século 20. Sua obra é tão vasta quanto variada: são mais de trinta livros, entre contos, romances, poemas, ensaios e peças. Acumulou diversos prêmios durante a carreira, mas sua grande conquista está no legado artístico e humano de suas palavras. A câmara sangrenta e outras histórias é um dos melhores exemplos de seus méritos.
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
Angela Carter
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.
Black Venus
Angela Carter
This is an alternate cover edition for isbn: 9780099480716
Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have been mythologized or marginalized and recasts them in a new light. In a style that is sensual, cerebral, almost hypnotic, "The Fall River Axe-Murders" portrays the last hours before Lizzie Borden's infamous act: the sweltering heat, the weight of flannel and corsets, the clanging of the factory bells, the food reheated and reserved despite the lack of adequate refrigeration, the house "full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors." In "Our Lady of the Massacre" the no-nonsense voice of an eighteenth-century prostitute/runaway slave questions who is civilized - the Indians or the white men? "Black Venus" gives voice to Charles Baudelaire's Creole mistress, Jeanne Duval: "you could say, not so much that Jeanne did not understand the lapidary, troubled serenity of her lover's poetry but, that it was a perpetual affront to her. He recited it to her by the hour and she ached, raged and chafed under it because his eloquence denied her language." "The Kiss" takes the traditional story of Tamburlaine's wife and gives it a new and refreshing ending. Sometimes disquieting, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, Angela Carter's stories offer a feminist revision of images that lie deep in the public psyche.
Bluebeard
Angela Carter
'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy humour and gothic imagination, nothing is as it seems.This book includes Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood, Cinderella: or, The Glass Slipper, Ricky with the Tuft and The Foolish Wishes.
Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. Here are subversive tales, by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Angela Carter
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents—as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales—are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision.
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Angela Carter
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizbaeth David; British writing: American writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset; and appreciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.
Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
Angela Carter
Book by Carter, Angela
Heroes and Villains
Angela Carter
After the apocalypse the world is neatly divided.
Rational civilization rests with the Professors in their steel and concrete villages; marauding tribes of Barbarians roam the surrounding jungles; mutilated Out People inhabit the burnt scars of cities.
But Marianne, a Professor's daughter, is carried away into the jungle--a grotesque vegetable paradise--where she will become the captive bride of Jewel, the proud and beautiful Barbarian. There she will witness the savage rituals of the snake worshippers, indulge her voluptuous, virginal fantasies, taste the forbidden fruit of chaos...
Erotic, exotic, and bizarre, HEROES AND VILLAINS is a post-apocalyptic romance, a gripping adventure story, a colourful embroidery of religion and magic and, not least, a dispassionate vision of life beyond our brave nuclear world.
La bottega dei giocattoli
Angela Carter
Una notte la giovane Melanie attraversa il giardino di casa indossando l’abito nuziale sottratto all’armadio della madre. Il giorno dopo il suo mondo non è piú lo stesso: costretta ad abbandonare la confortevole dimora della propria infanzia, Melanie si reca a Londra con i fratelli, a vivere da parenti che non ha mai conosciuto. Da questo momento abiterà in un negozio di giocattoli, colmo di meraviglie e oggetti bizzarri, un teatro magico e misterioso in cui si muovono strani personaggi: la zia Margaret, bella e silente; Francie, un violinista dotato e timido; Finn, imprevedibile e risoluto, che osa baciare Melanie fra le rovine dei giardini pubblici. Poi, quale orco nella sua tana, il minaccioso zio Philip, che ama soltanto i grandi manichini di legno che crea instancabilmente nel suo laboratorio. In questa nuova, sconvolgente realtà, Melanie scopre l’ambiguo potere dei sensi, dell’amore, della paura, e il fascino inquietante del diventare adulti. “Per chi abbia amato Lewis Carroll e la sua Alice, per chi adora il surreale che rispetta l’assoluta verosimiglianza del dettaglio realistico (…), La bottega dei giocattoli è il romanzo giusto. È un racconto di iniziazione, o se volete un romanzo di formazione.” Nadia Fusini
La cámara sangrienta
Angela Carter
La cámara sangrienta, publicada originalmente en 1979, es una colección de diez relatos explícitamente basados en cuentos de hadas, en especial, de Charles Perrault, pero también de Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, del folclore europeo, e incluso de la radionovela, con claras influencias de la narrativa del Marqués de Sade. Su autora, Angela Carter, afirmó que se sentía impelida a escribir «cuentos góticos, cuentos crueles, cuentos de terror, narrativas fabulosas que tratan directamente del imaginario del inconsciente». Pero Carter no se limitó a versionar cuentos de hadas desde una nueva perspectiva, sino que los recreó por completo «al extraer el contenido latente de los cuentos tradicionales y usarlo como punto de partida de nuevas historias […]; y el contenido latente es violentamente sexual».
Así, estos relatos ahondan en temas de feminismo y metamorfosis, con un énfasis especial en los roles de las mujeres en las relaciones, en los aspectos inmorales y perversos del matrimonio y el sexo, y en el equilibrio de poder en esas relaciones. La ilustradora chilena Alejandra Acosta ha puesto sus lápices al servicio de estas historias sorprendentes y necesarias, convirtiendo este clásico en una obra, si cabe, infinitamente más bella. Como muchos críticos han comentado en las últimas décadas, el motivo por el que La cámara sangrienta deslumbra con brillantez es que consigue ilustrar un argumento feminista realmente moderno: que las mujeres tienen un poder y unos derechos inherentes, así como la responsabilidad de utilizar el primero y reivindicar los segundos. Y con su trabajo, Carter y Acosta lo han demostrado sobradamente.
La camera di sangue
Angela Carter
La riscrittura di dieci favole celebri con le trame sovvertite con irridente arguzia. Tra queste ci sono: Barbablù, Cappuccetto Rosso, La bella e la bestia, Il Gatto con gli stivali, La bella addormentata a altre storie atroci e inquietanti della tradizione nordica, con lupi e vampiri, nevi e foreste, porte misteriose e scricchiolii sinistri..
La Compagnie des loups : et autres nouvelles
Angela Carter
Ils sont tous là, si familiers… et portant étrangement pervertis. Barbe-Bleue, le petit Chaperon rouge, la Belle et la Bête, le Loup-garou, Blanche-Neige… chargés de violence et d’érotisme gothique, parés d’une morale différente et d’une beauté nouvelle. Attention, les loups sont parmi nous, mais aussi en nous, prêts à bondir…
La juguetería mágica
Angela Carter
«El verano en que cumplió quince años, Melanie descubrió que era de carne y hueso». Con este arranque empieza La juguetería mágica, una de las mejores y más célebres obras de Angela Carter: una novela iniciática sobre el despertar a los misterios del cuerpo y del alma y sobre el siempre violento descubrimiento de ese reino del caos y lo inesperado que es la vida.
Una noche, Melanie camina por el jardín con el vestido de boda de su madre y, a la mañana siguiente, todo su mundo se ha hecho añicos. Así de simple, así de inconcebible. Melanie y sus dos hermanos pequeños se verán obligados a mudarse a Londres, a casa de tío Philip, un huraño y genial fabricante de juguetes que vive con su esposa Margaret –una mujer «frágil como una flor prensada», muda desde el día de su boda– y los dos extravagantes hermanos de ésta. Tras una infancia idílica en la casa familiar, Melanie se ve ahora confinada en un entorno opresivo y delirante, lleno de artilugios y mecanismos creados por su tío, inquietante personaje acostumbrado a tratar a las personas como si fueran otros de sus títeres.
La atmósfera gótica, la prosa exquisita y los guiños traviesos e iconoclastas que han convertido a Carter en una de las autoras británicas más reconocidas del siglo xx hacen de La juguetería mágica un clásico imprescindible sobre el rito de paso de la adolescencia a la madurez, el despertar a la sexualidad y la rebeldía femenina, que generación tras generación es redescubierto por lectores en todo el mundo.
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella & Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Angela Carter
Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter
Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely regarded as one of England’s most imaginative writers, adapted them for contemporary readers. The result is a cornucopia of fantastic characters and timeless adventures, stylishly retold by a modern literary visionary.
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Love
Angela Carter
Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections.
This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?
Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.
Nopți la circ
Angela Carter
Publicat in 1984, romanul Nopti la circ a fost distins, in acelasi an, cu James Tait Black Memorial Prize si pus in scena in 2006, la celebrele teatre Lyric Hammersmith din Londra si Bristol Old Vic. Curtata de printul de Wales si pictata de Toulouse-Lautrec, Sophie Fevvers, femeia cu aripi de lebada este vedeta incontestabila a circului Colonelului Kearney. Impartit intre dragostea pentru faimoasa trapezista si dorinta de a scrie cel mai bun articol din viata lui, Jack Walser, un jurnalist american, se alatura circului intr-o calatorie fascinanta prin tinuturile inghetate ale Rusiei si Siberiei.
Saints and Strangers
Angela Carter
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have been mythologized or marginalized and recasts them in a new light. In a style that is sensual, cerebral, almost hypnotic, "The Fall River Axe-Murders" portrays the last hours before Lizzie Borden's infamous act: the sweltering heat, the weight of flannel and corsets, the clanging of the factory bells, the food reheated and reserved despite the lack of adequate refrigeration, the house "full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors." In "Our Lady of the Massacre" the no-nonsense voice of an eighteenth-century prostitute/runaway slave questions who is civilized - the Indians or the white men? "Black Venus" gives voice to Charles Baudelaire's Creole mistress, Jeanne Duval: "you could say, not so much that Jeanne did not understand the lapidary, troubled serenity of her lover's poetry but, that it was a perpetual affront to her. He recited it to her by the hour and she ached, raged and chafed under it because his eloquence denied her language." "The Kiss" takes the traditional story of Tamburlaine's wife and gives it a new and refreshing ending. Sometimes disquieting, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, Angela Carter's stories offer a feminist revision of images that lie deep in the public psyche.
Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter (1993-05-04)
Angela Carter
Book by Angela Carter
Several Perceptions
Angela Carter
Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
Shadow Dance
Angela Carter
The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man, Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale. 'In a modern day horror story gleaming with perfect 1960's detail, she performs a double act, conjuring up just the right amount of unease and perversion beneath the idiosyncratic business of relatively ordinary lives' THE TIMES
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings
Angela Carter
"An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author’s fiction. Angela Carter is revealed here, anew, as one of the most important thinkers of twentieth-century world literature—and one of its most pungent voices.”—Rick Moody
One of contemporary literature’s most original and affecting fiction writers, Angela Carter also wrote brilliant nonfiction. Shaking a Leg comprises the best of her essays and criticism, much of it collected for the first time. Carter’s acute observations are spiked with her piercing matter-of-factness, her devastating wit, her penchant for mockery, and her passion for the absurd. Whether discussing films or food, feminism or fantasy, science fiction or sex, Carter consistently explores new territories and overturns old ideas. No cultural icon escapes her scrutiny; as in her fiction, Carter offers glorious evidence of the transforming power of the imagination. From delightfully wicked commentaries on Gone with the Wind , a Japanese fertility festival, and fellow writers, including Lawrence, Lovecraft, Borges, and Burroughs, to enchanting personal essays, Carter shares her thoughts and herself with glee.
“What a wonderful collection—sharp, funny, too decent for sarcasm but great wit and humanity, an unusual combination. But it makes us miss her, miss laughing with her, that real, intelligent, tough writing woman.”—Grace Paley
The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the feminist cult classic (Vintage Quarterbound Classics)
Angela Carter
A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood , Bluebeard , Puss in Boots , Beauty and the Beast , vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret AtwoodVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeINTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks: Introduction by Joan Acocella (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Angela Carter
An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination.
In The Bloody Chamber , Angela Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, we see a Beauty who turns into a Beast, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother stoned as a werewolf, and Bluebeard as a murderous, porn-addicted businessman. In the surreally delightful novel Wise Children , an elderly woman recounts the colorful life she and her identical twin sister led as vaudeville performers. And the early story collection Fireworks reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastical writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. As critic Laura Miller has argued, "Most contemporary literary fiction with a touch of magic owes something to Angela Carter's trailblazing." This Everyman's Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.
The Company of Wolves
Angela Carter
The wolf is described as an evil thing. The first story is about a witch that turned a whole wedding ceremony into wolves. She likes them coming to her cabin and howling their misery for it soothes her. The following story is about a young lady and a man that are about to have sex on their wedding night. As they get ready, the husband says he needs to stop and relieve himself in the forest. The wife waits and he never returns. Off in the distance you can hear a wolf howling. She then figures her husband will never return and marries a new man. With her new husband she bears children. Her first husband comes back and sees his wife and the story unravels... Later we meet a girl walking in the woods. She was loved by everyone and feared nothing. She made a deal with a hunter; whoever can get to the grandmothers house first wins. If the hunter wins she owes him a kiss. She lets the hunter win because she wants to kiss him. The hunter arrives at the grandmothers house but she's frail and sick, holding a Bible for protection. The last thing she sees is the young man at the foot of her bed.... "See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf."
The Curious Room: Collected Dramatic Works
Angela Carter
Encompassing radio plays, and pieces for stage and screen, this volume explores familiar Carter preoccupations: myth and fairy tale; domestic murder and the violence underlying everyday life, and the rebellious victims of the repressive society.
It includes the screenplays for "The Magic Toyshop" and "The Company of Wolves"; a draft for an opera of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"; and reworkings for radio of "Puss in Boots" and "Dracula".
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Angela Carter
In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Angela Carter
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.
A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.
The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure garden. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshops. The classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works.
"Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes—from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch… It leave behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling" —The New York Times Book Review
The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter
I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . '
New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography
Angela Carter
Sexuality is power. So says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer. His virtuous Justine, who keeps to the rules, is rewarded with rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality.
With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time: The Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes.
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is The Virago Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries around the world. And no drippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead girls, women and crones, wise as serpents, gentle as doves and occasionally daft as brushes.
Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a period in which Carter began to explore the themes that dominated her later work: magic, the reworking of myths and their darker sides, and the overturning of literary and social conventions. With imagery at times startling in its violence and disconcerting in its presentation of sexuality, Unicorn provides compelling insight into the formation of a remarkable imagination. In the essay that accompanies the poems the critic and historian Rosemary Hill considers them in the context of Carter's other work and as an aspect of the 1960s, the decade which as Carter put it 'wasn't like they say in the movies'.
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter
This marvelous collection of stories about bad girls, wicked women and unsatisfactory wives is designed to promote the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners, and to give a positive role to women who will not put up with the status quo, and to hell with the consequences. Widely ranging in time and place, these subversive tales -- by Grace Paley, Bessie Head, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Jolley, Djuna Barnes, Colette, Angela Carter, Jamaica Kincaid, Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles and many more -- all have one thing in common: to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to the rightful position as models for all women, everywhere. Leonora Carrington's debutante swaps places with a hyena who exchanges the cage for the ball -- and goes dressed to kill. Christina Stead's seedy seducer is eventually wrecked by the utterly conventional bride. Some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Wise Children
Angela Carter
Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.
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Angela Carter
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