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

• Main Author: Tan, Lester.
• Other Authors: Yong Ee Hou
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52215
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...