Carter, Angela - Jean Wyatt (essay date 1996)
Jean Wyatt (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Wyatt, Jean. “The Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and “Peter and the Wolf.” Women's Studies 25, no. 6 (1996): 549-70.
[In the following essay, Wyatt argues that Carter rewrites Freud's theories on female sexuality in The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and “Peter and the Wolf.”]
In an essay on life in the '60s, Angela Carter describes how she became committed to “demythologising” “the social fictions that regulate our lives”: “I began to question … the nature of my reality as a woman. How that social fiction of my ‘femininity’ was created, by means outside my control, and palmed off on me as the real thing” (“Notes,” [“Notes from the Frontline”]71;70). Her novels and short stories take on some of the master narratives that continue to construct femininity in...
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