GROTESQUE BODIES AND SPACES IN ANGELA CARTER’S THE PASSION OF NEW EVE
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Angela Carter’s widely-acclaimed novel The Passion of New
Eve is a dystopian text in which a bleak, rotten, and destructive setting
provides the backdrop for the problematization of such issues as
gender and politics, and the collapse of binaries. It is significant to
focus on the novel’s dismantling of binaries, especially in terms of the
problematized distinction between human and non-human, biological
body and machine, inside and outside, man-made and natural. Such
dismantling is especially manifest in the physical characterization of
Eve/lyn, the Mother, Zero, and Tristessa. All of these characters are
presented as forms of excess. Moreover, the spaces they inhabit
reinforce and perpetuate their excessiveness as well as grotesque
depictions. In this respect, this paper argues that grotesque bodies
embedded within grotesque landscapes in The Passion of New Eve
makes it possible to have an ecological discussion of the relationship
between the body and the environment.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- BAKHTIN, MIKHAIL (1965), Rabelais and His World. Trans. H. Iswolsky. Indiana UP, Bloomington. CARTER, Angela (1982), The Passion of New Eve. Virago, London. DESCARTES, René (1995). Discourse on the Method and the Meditations. Trans. F. E. Sutcliffe. Penguin, London. GATENS, Moira (1996), Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality. Routledge, New York and London. MCAULEY, Alex (2008), “Surfing the Interzones: Posthuman Geographies in Twentieth Century Literature and Film.” Diss. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MERCHANT, Caroline (1989), Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. U of North Carolina P, Chapel Hill. RUSSO, Mary (1994), The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity. Routledge, New York and London. THOMPSON, D (1997), The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium. Minerva, London.
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
16 Mayıs 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
24 Ocak 2018
Kabul Tarihi
8 Mayıs 2018
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Yıl 2018 Cilt: 16 Sayı: 1/2