Angela Carter
1940-1992 Angela Carter was a British novelist born in Eastbourne under her maiden name Angela Olive Carter. In her early childhood she moved to Yorkshire with her Grandmother. Throughout her teenage life she suffered from anorexia. Carter was a radical feminist writer that greatly contributed to the feminist movement in the 1970s. |
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Carter married twice- her first marriage to Paul Carter in 1960 lasted nine years. Her second marriage in 1977 resulted in the birth of her only son. Sadly, Carter died prematurely from lung cancer at the age of 52.
Carter graduated from the University of Bristol from which point her career as a writer blossomed. She wrote novels, short stories, anthologies, articles and non fiction from which she received numerous literary awards. Carter is an acclaimed literary artist whose work has inspired many and attracted much examination from critics.
Her work includes the following:
Novels - Shadow Dance, The Magic Toyshop, Heroes and Villains, Several Perceptions, The Donkey Prince, Miss Z in 1970, Love, The Music People, Moonshadow, Nights at the Circus which was a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Artificial Fire, Wise Children, and Sea-Cat & Dragon King.
Anthologies - Expletives Deleted in 1974, The Bloody Chamber, Comic and Curious Cats, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Black Venus, and Burning Your Boats in 1995.
Nonfiction including The Sadeian Woman & the Ideology of Pornography in 1978, Nothing Sacred in 1982, and Images of Frida Kahlo in 1989 (Information sourced from http://www.angelacartersite.co.uk/)
Carter is perhaps most famous for her subversive style of writing , she refused to conform to typical conventions of genres in an attempt to disrupt and critique the ideologies that they perpetuate. From the 1970's onwards Carter developed a particular concern with the ideological apparatus of pornography and the gender binaries that it constructed. She claimed that pornographic material objectified women and rendered them powerless to male dominance. The work of the infamous French pornographer the Marquis de Sade is particularly noted to be responsible for "both stimulating her fascination with the graphic extremism of pornographic forms and awakening her feminist consciousness" (Gamble,1997,p:8) . In response to De Sade, Carter produced her non fictional book The Sadeian Woman in 1978 from which she examines and critiques issues of sexual identification and power raised in de Sade's pornographic narratives. For a more detailed discussion of The Sadeian Woman, please follow the link below.
Carter graduated from the University of Bristol from which point her career as a writer blossomed. She wrote novels, short stories, anthologies, articles and non fiction from which she received numerous literary awards. Carter is an acclaimed literary artist whose work has inspired many and attracted much examination from critics.
Her work includes the following:
Novels - Shadow Dance, The Magic Toyshop, Heroes and Villains, Several Perceptions, The Donkey Prince, Miss Z in 1970, Love, The Music People, Moonshadow, Nights at the Circus which was a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Artificial Fire, Wise Children, and Sea-Cat & Dragon King.
Anthologies - Expletives Deleted in 1974, The Bloody Chamber, Comic and Curious Cats, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Black Venus, and Burning Your Boats in 1995.
Nonfiction including The Sadeian Woman & the Ideology of Pornography in 1978, Nothing Sacred in 1982, and Images of Frida Kahlo in 1989 (Information sourced from http://www.angelacartersite.co.uk/)
Carter is perhaps most famous for her subversive style of writing , she refused to conform to typical conventions of genres in an attempt to disrupt and critique the ideologies that they perpetuate. From the 1970's onwards Carter developed a particular concern with the ideological apparatus of pornography and the gender binaries that it constructed. She claimed that pornographic material objectified women and rendered them powerless to male dominance. The work of the infamous French pornographer the Marquis de Sade is particularly noted to be responsible for "both stimulating her fascination with the graphic extremism of pornographic forms and awakening her feminist consciousness" (Gamble,1997,p:8) . In response to De Sade, Carter produced her non fictional book The Sadeian Woman in 1978 from which she examines and critiques issues of sexual identification and power raised in de Sade's pornographic narratives. For a more detailed discussion of The Sadeian Woman, please follow the link below.