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A Feminist Post-Narratological Inquiry into Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”

Year 2019, , 325 - 337, 21.03.2019
https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.542633

Abstract

Angela Carter is an unorthodox figure of 20th-century literature that declares war on all kinds of orthodox beliefs and practices. One of those practices against which she boldly fights is myths. Myths draw social and cultural boundaries that tempt such writers as Carter to trespass by playing upon and with their breaks and leaks. Specifically alert to the distribution of power regarding sexual politics, Carter rereads traditional myths with closer attention and rewrites them to spoil their ideological fabric and debunking their malignant latent aims. As such, she sets out to explore fairytale tradition to see how women are misrepresented by and within fairytales and how these misrepresentations are encoded as universal facts. In her avant-garde work The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), Carter rewrites these fairytales with the purpose of denouncing the misrepresentations manifest in them and deconstructing gender stereotypes. This paper is an attempt to scrutinize one of these rewritings in this collection, “The Company of Wolves” from a feminist post-narratological stance, first discussing the inapplicability of classical narratological theories such as Proppian analysis of fairytales to deconstructive rewritings and then elaborating on the subversive potential of Carter’s rewriting in comparison with the original version “Little Red Cap” by the Grimm Brothers.

References

  • Atwood, Margaret. Running with the Tigers. Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. Ed. Lorna Sage. London: Virago Press, 1994. 117-135.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge, 1990.
  • Carter, Angela. “Notes From the Front Line.” in Qn Gender and Writing. ed. Michelene Wandor. London: Pandora Press, 1983. 69-77
  • ____________. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. London: Virago Press, 2013.
  • ____________.Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992.
  • ____________.The Company of Wolves. The Bloody Chamber (1979). London: Vintage, 2014. 129-140.
  • Cixous, Helene. The Laugh of Medusa. Signs. Vol. 1, No.4, 1976. 875-892.
  • Grimm, J & Grimm, W. Little Red Cap (1812). The Classical Fairy Tales. Trans. and Ed. M. Tatar. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 13-16. Print.
  • De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010.
  • Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.
  • Katsavos, Anna. An Interview with Angela Carter. Review of Contemporary Fiction 14.3, 1994. Pp. 11-17. Web.
  • Lanser, Susan. Toward a Feminist Narratology.
  • Orenstein, Catherine. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. New York: Perseus, 2002. Page, R. E. Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology. New York: Macmillan, 2006.
  • Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
  • Vasickova, Marcela. Reworking of Fairy Tales in the Work of Angela Carter. Diss. Univerzita PalackehoV Olomouci, 2013.
  • Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. London: Heinemann,1983.
  • ____________. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. London: Heinemann, 1979.

Angela Carter’ın “Kurtlar Arasında” Öyküsünün Feminist Post-Anlatıbilimsel İncelemesi

Year 2019, , 325 - 337, 21.03.2019
https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.542633

Abstract

Angela Carter, tüm ortodoks düşünce sistemleri, inanış ve uygulamalara savaş açmış, 20. Yüzyıl edebiyatında alışılmışın dışında kalan edebi figürlerden biridir. Carter’ın cesurca savaştığı bu uygulamalardan biri de mitlerdir. Mitler, Carter gibi yazarları üzerine çekecek sosyokültürel sınırlar çizerler. Özellikle de cinsel politikadaki güçler dağılımıyla ilgilenen Carter, geleneksel mitleri yeniden okuyarak, içlerinde barındırdıkları ideolojik dokuyu yapıbozuma uğratmak ve içkin amaçlarını boşa çıkarmak üzere bu mitleri yeniden yazar. Bu bakımdan, masallarda kadınların nasıl temsil edildiği ve bu temsillerin nasıl evrensel doğrulara dönüştürüldüğünü anlamak  ve anlatmak için masal geleneğini keşfetmeye koyulur. Yenilikçi eserlerinden Kanlı Oda ve Diğer Öyküler’de de bu temsilleri çürütmek ve cinsiyet normlarını yapısöküme uğratmak amacıyla masalları yeniden yazar. Bu çalışma, bu koleksiyondaki yeniden yazılan masallardan biri olan “Kurtlar Arasında” öyküsünü feminist post-anlatıbilimsel açıdan incelemeyi, bunu yaparken de öncelikle Propp’un masal incelemesi gibi geleneksel anlatıbilimsel yöntemlerin yapıbozumcu yeniden yazımlara uygulanamazlığını tartışıp ardından Carter’ın öyküsünü, öykünün orijinali  kaynağı Grimm Kardeşler’in “Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız” masalıyla karşılaştırmalı olarak ele almayı amaçlamaktadır.  

References

  • Atwood, Margaret. Running with the Tigers. Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. Ed. Lorna Sage. London: Virago Press, 1994. 117-135.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge, 1990.
  • Carter, Angela. “Notes From the Front Line.” in Qn Gender and Writing. ed. Michelene Wandor. London: Pandora Press, 1983. 69-77
  • ____________. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. London: Virago Press, 2013.
  • ____________.Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992.
  • ____________.The Company of Wolves. The Bloody Chamber (1979). London: Vintage, 2014. 129-140.
  • Cixous, Helene. The Laugh of Medusa. Signs. Vol. 1, No.4, 1976. 875-892.
  • Grimm, J & Grimm, W. Little Red Cap (1812). The Classical Fairy Tales. Trans. and Ed. M. Tatar. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 13-16. Print.
  • De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010.
  • Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.
  • Katsavos, Anna. An Interview with Angela Carter. Review of Contemporary Fiction 14.3, 1994. Pp. 11-17. Web.
  • Lanser, Susan. Toward a Feminist Narratology.
  • Orenstein, Catherine. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. New York: Perseus, 2002. Page, R. E. Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology. New York: Macmillan, 2006.
  • Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
  • Vasickova, Marcela. Reworking of Fairy Tales in the Work of Angela Carter. Diss. Univerzita PalackehoV Olomouci, 2013.
  • Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. London: Heinemann,1983.
  • ____________. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. London: Heinemann, 1979.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section ARTİCLES
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Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu This is me 0000-0003-4114-9437

Publication Date March 21, 2019
Acceptance Date February 14, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2019

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APA Çokay Nebioğlu, R. (2019). Angela Carter’ın “Kurtlar Arasında” Öyküsünün Feminist Post-Anlatıbilimsel İncelemesi. Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları, 19(19), 325-337. https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.542633

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