Things Angela Carter has said Flashcards
(12 cards)
What did she say about the context of the 1970s
“we live in Gothic times”
Quote about her intertextuality
“i have a jackdaw kind of mind”
Lacan, the mirror stage and the male gaze
“Self possession. To be in possession of oneself. That’s the one thing really.”
Femininity and curiosity
“the innocent girl pays a high price for the imaginary crime of Eve”
Women and female sexuality
“A free women in an unfree society will be a monster”
De Sade
A “moral pornographer” who “treats the facts of feamel sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality”
Bottles
“I’m all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure from the new wine makes the bottles explode”.
Politics
“do I situate myself politically as a writer? Well, yes; of course. I always hope it’s obvious”
Arguments
“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt”
Hollywood
“hollywood had colonised the imagination of the entire world and was turning us all into Americans. I resented it, it fascinated me.”
Mother-child relationships
“in this enforced and involuntary relationship how can mother and child be anything but enemies?”
Who did Carter think her stories would have the greatest effect on
Men, rather than women, because she believed that women were already aware of the mythologising effects of the tales which she is rewriting.
