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ANGELA CARTER'S TELESCOPED READING OF THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD


MONICA SĂULESCU
University of Bucharest

Issue:

CP, Number 1

Section:

No. 1 (1996)  Editorial

Abstract:

Angela Carter's version of The Little Red Riding Hood points to a redefinition of identity in a feminist perspective as she subverts the patriarchal pattern of the traditional tale. The main aim of this approach is to reveal the ambivalence and the duplicity of the modern mind, for the writer introduces various types of ambiguity such as the werewolf (human / beastly nature), the girl warrior (female stealing male power), the vampire text (the war of variants: original versus copy), the crossroads (meeting place of alternatives of being), prosperity (culture feeding on culture).

Keywords:

shadow, pleasure principle, vampire text, father-figure, male seducer, crossroads, girl-warrior, werewolf, anticlimax, prosperity.

Code [ID]:

CP199601V00S01A0005 [0004551]


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