Re-writing the Body: Angela Carter’s re-visioning of contemporary ideology through transformations of the physical body.

• Main Author: Leow, Serene Sing Ning.
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45686
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores the relation between women’s writing and portrayals of the physical body, and bases its argument in Hélène Cixous’ concept of l’écriture féminine -- a female literary tradition that emphasises the need for women to “bring women into writing, from which they have been driven away...