Becoming-woman in Angela Carter’s the passion of new eve

• Main Author: Yong, Ade Wernmei
• Other Authors: D. C. Byrne
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Nomadic Subjectivity; The Passion of New Eve; Angela Carter
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152456
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper argues for the significance of Carter’s novel as a critique of violence as feminist strategy, but more importantly, for offering an alternative to the rhetoric of female revenge, violence and role-reversal which momentarily dominated feminist discourse in the 70’s. I attempt to engage C...