Author(s): Fabio Jaberson da Silva Trajano
Journal: Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU
ISSN 2177-6288
Volume: 3;
Issue: 1A;
Start page: 25;
Date: 2012;
Original page
Keywords: Postmodernism | Gothic | Female subject.
ABSTRACT
By working within the postmodern aesthetics, the English writer Angela Carterconcomitantly installs and undermines historical female Gothic in order to bring to the fore socialopaque mechanisms that invariably work for the detriment of the female subject. In this way, Carter’spostmodern female Gothic not only provides escape from the chains of gender, but of genre as well.
Journal: Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU
ISSN 2177-6288
Volume: 3;
Issue: 1A;
Start page: 25;
Date: 2012;
Original page
Keywords: Postmodernism | Gothic | Female subject.
ABSTRACT
By working within the postmodern aesthetics, the English writer Angela Carterconcomitantly installs and undermines historical female Gothic in order to bring to the fore socialopaque mechanisms that invariably work for the detriment of the female subject. In this way, Carter’spostmodern female Gothic not only provides escape from the chains of gender, but of genre as well.
