A third term : re-articulating gender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus.

This essay argues that in order to challenge male hegemony and patriarchal values, Angela Carter deconstructs our current understandings of gender and re-articulates and re-conceptualizes gender as a third term that isn’t reproduced by prevailing social norms, gender discourses and existing fields o...

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Main Author:	Tan, Lester.
Other Authors:	Yong Ee Hou
Format:	Final Year Project
Language:	English
Published:	2013
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Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52215
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-522152019-12-10T11:58:14Z A third term : re-articulating gender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus. Tan, Lester. Yong Ee Hou School of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr Yong Wern Mei DRNTU::Humanities This essay argues that in order to challenge male hegemony and patriarchal values, Angela Carter deconstructs our current understandings of gender and re-articulates and re-conceptualizes gender as a third term that isn’t reproduced by prevailing social norms, gender discourses and existing fields of power relations. Carter conceives gender as a term that is non-essentialist, androgynous, performative, pluralistic and resistant to fixities. Through a close examination The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, this essay aims to demonstrate how Carter repudiates prevailing conceptions of gender in both novel to forge an alternative gender apparatus through which we can understand the relations between men and women. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-25T04:43:34Z 2013-04-25T04:43:34Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52215 en Nanyang Technological University 38 p. application/pdf
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A third term : re-articulating gender in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus.

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