Women In Horror Month, Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Honoring Women In Horror Month, today’s focus is on Angela Carter, a feminist writer who creates with sensuality, produces complex stories, and is known to have had a revolutionary impact on not only the literary world but readers around the world.
Meet English author Angela Carter (1940—1992), writer of poetry, fairy tales, folklore, and horror.
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
“For most of human history, ‘literature,’ both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.”
Carter writes new versions of the classic fairy tales, that go beyond the usual and into violence, sometimes sexual violence. These folk tales take on a modern shudder for readers. The Bloody Chamber is highly popular with an introduction by Kelly Link who described Carter’s prose in The Lady of the House of Love, as “luscious, comical, vissing theatricality.”
Read her flash fiction The Snow Child here Biblioklept.
Read The Company of Wolves here:
https://genius.com/Angela-carter-the-company-of-wolves-annotated
Some have criticized Carter’s writing as “purple prose,” overblown, and self-indulgent. If you are a curious about Carter’s “purple prose” (and what she has to say about it) watch this video as she defends her art. ( 25 minutes.) Memorable!
Visit Carter’s website: https://www.angelacarter.co.uk/
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