“A Different Logic”: Animals, Transformation, and Rationality in Angela Carter's “The Tiger's Bride”

Webb, Caroline; Hopcroft, Helen

doi:10.13110/marvelstales.31.2.0314

Marvels & Tales

2017

DOI: 10.13110/marvelstales.31.2.0314

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“A Different Logic”: Animals, Transformation, and Rationality in Angela Carter's “The Tiger's Bride”

Caroline Webb¹,

Helen Hopcroft²

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Animal Tricksters from Japanese Folktales in Angela Carter’s Work

Cardi

2022

Contemporary Women's Writing

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This article explores the role of Japanese folktales in Angela Carter’s oeuvre, focusing especially on the figure of the Japanese fox trickster that appears in Fireworks, Love, and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. In these works, the shape-shifting body of the East-Asian fox becomes a site of conflict between contrasting categories (male/female, European/Asian, human/animal) and mirrors the process by which the characters are turned into commodified, fictionalized representations of gender and race. The trickster’s ability to shift across the animal–human border also provides Carter with a narrative device to interrogate the cultural boundaries that define both sexuality and humanity (as opposed to bestiality)—a topic that prefigures her critique of patriarchal and anthropocentric hierarchies in The Bloody Chamber.

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Animal Tricksters from Japanese Folktales in Angela Carter’s Work

Cardi

2022

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From captivity to bestiality: Feminist subversion of fairy-tale female characters in Angela Carter's "the Tiger's Bride"

Gemović¹

2019

Reči, Beograd

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This paper elaborates on Angela Carter"s subversion of the fairy-tale genre in the tale from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories titled "The Tiger"s Bride". The method of research combines researching relevant theoretical literature and thorough text analysis. The primary concern of this paper is the subversion of female characters in fairy tales as a means of advocating feminist attitudes. Relevant passages are used to exemplify Carter"s feminism, with special reference to the subverted roles of the heroine of the tale. The female protagonist"s transition from being a captive to becoming a beast is analysed, and her reinvented roles discussed and compared to the traits of the heroine from the classic Beauty and the Beast story written by De Beaumont. This is done in order to uncover the multilayered structure of Carter"s work and hopefully determine the author"s genuine purpose in subverting the fairy-tale genre as well as the message she wanted to convey.

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“A Different Logic”: Animals, Transformation, and Rationality in Angela Carter's “The Tiger's Bride”

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Animal Tricksters from Japanese Folktales in Angela Carter’s Work

Animal Tricksters from Japanese Folktales in Angela Carter’s Work

From captivity to bestiality: Feminist subversion of fairy-tale female characters in Angela Carter's "the Tiger's Bride"

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