The body-city hybrid : gothic transgression in Angela Carter’s novels

• Main Author: Tan, Fiona Maey Yee
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59660
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay, it is discussed that a woman’s desire for self-governance and autonomy is bounded and overly defined by the social and biological definitions that are inextricably circumscribed by her sex. Often times, female bodies serve as vehicles for the oppressor to maintain and perpetuate biolo...