A Study of Carter’s<i> Wolf_Alice</i> Based on Showalter’s Gynocriticism

Abstract

One of the most radical and stylish fiction authors of the 20 th century, Angela Carter, expresses her views of feminism through her various novels and fairy tales. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter's work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine's internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter's short stories; such as The Company of Wolves, and Werewolf and mainly in Wolf_Alice have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.

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“…Azadeh Nouri and Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi (2015) analyzed the heroine's internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior on Angela Carter's Wolf Alice. The result proves that all of the female protagonists in carter's short stories; such as The Company of Wolves, and Werewolf and mainly in Wolf Alice have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles.…”

“…Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation. Mojgan Eyvazi, Mohsen Momen, and Homa Poorkaramali (2017) Nodeh and Pourgiv's (2012), as well as Putri (2014), are focus on analyzing the culture of a woman (the theory of woman culture) in the novel and short stories, while Nouri and Mohammadi (2015) are focus on analyzing the psychology of woman (psychoanalytical criticism) on short stories, and then Eyvazi, Momen, and Poorkaramali (2017) are analyzing the three phases of female writing development on novels based on Showalter's Gynocriticism. Gynocriticism itself has four models of analysis, that is biological criticism, linguistic criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, and the theory of woman's culture.…”

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“…Schweickart (2008, 497) proposes that such critique needs to reflect on what 'it mean[s] for a woman, reading as a woman, to read literature written by a woman writing as a woman?' Responding to this call, we move beyond feminist critique which retains the patriarchy as its focus and combine feminist literary critique with gynocriticism, as the latter centres study on the woman as writer and the history, themes, imagery, ideology and genres of their writing while also foregrounding female experiences of reading (Nouri and Aziz Mohammad 2015;Showalter 1981;Stanford Friedman 1996). Gynocriticism recognises common denominators that unify women's experiences, based on oppression and otherness and foregrounds gender in analysis (Manoff 2003) but may also embrace an intersectional understanding of these experiences (Donovan 1984).…”