Space, Mirrors, Subjectivity in Angela Carter’s Fiction

Jiang Xiaobo

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
31 August 2023

Theatre Studies; Film, TV & Radio; Language Reference & Linguistics; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Gender studies: women

Angela Carter is known for her style—daring, disturbing, excessive—and her efforts to destroy and demystify every social norm. But she does more than dare. With sharp and subtle sensitivity, Carter disintegrates paradigms of temporality and mind enshrined by western philosophical tradition. She recognizes and illustrates how our modern alienation and disorientation derive more from spatial anxiety than time disorientation. Through her novels and short stories, Carter re-examines the human-space relation, unraveling the power discourses inscribed as the representation of space, and provides broader spatiotemporal imagination and possibilities. Focusing on spatiality in her works, this book explores Carter’s attempts to criticize, resist and rewrite hierarchical, gendered discourse—analyzing it through the lens of confining space, specular space and bodily space. I will show how Carter tries to build a new model of space that transcends the dominant/dominated paradigm and establishes a spatiality-subjectivity totality. Her model overcomes our state of alienation by embracing corporeality and excess, lived experience in everyday interactions with space, and a new construction of subject of becoming. This book is for literary critics, professors and students of literature, readers of Angela Carter, and all those who feel trapped by their bodies and space.

By: Jiang Xiaobo
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9781636670119
ISBN 10: 1636670113
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction – Confining Space: Space as Palimpsest of Power – Specular Space: Mirror as Façade and through the Looking Glass – Bodily Space: From Puppet to Flux Identity of Becoming – Conclusion.

Xiaobo Jiang earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is currently teaching at Beijing International Studies University. Among her major interests are twentieth-century British novels and literary theories.

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Space, Mirrors, Subjectivity in Angela Carter’s Fiction

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