ANGELA CARTER’S BLOODY CHAMBER IN RELATION TO THE SECOND WAVE FEMINISM

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the much debated problematic of postmodernist and feminist ideologies by examining some texts written by Angela Carter.. The tendency of the current feminist stylistics focuses mostly on the idea that there is a significant women’s writing and style that differs from men’s. Carter’s The Bloody Chamber is a collection of re-written traditional fairy tales. Carter, as one of the most radical and stylish fiction authors of the 20th century, expresses her views of feminism through her various novels, fairy tales, and re-writes
of fairy tales. The majority of her work goes around a specific time of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. Her
ten stories in the collection handle the topics of marriage, sexuality, gender roles, and female liberty.What Carter did by writing The Bloody Chamber, is not just re-writing of some old
stories like Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots but she created new stories with new conceptions of the binary oppositions between the male and the female.