A Feminist Post-Narratological Inquiry into Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”

Journal Title: Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları - Year 2019, Vol 19, Issue 19

Abstract

Angela Carter is an unorthodox figure of 20th-century literature that declares war on all kinds of orthodox beliefs and practices. One of those practices against which she boldly fights is myths. Myths draw social and cultural boundaries that tempt such writers as Carter to trespass by playing upon and with their breaks and leaks. Specifically alert to the distribution of power regarding sexual politics, Carter rereads traditional myths with closer attention and rewrites them to spoil their ideological fabric and debunking their malignant latent aims. As such, she sets out to explore fairytale tradition to see how women are misrepresented by and within fairytales and how these misrepresentations are encoded as universal facts. In her avant-garde work The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), Carter rewrites these fairytales with the purpose of denouncing the misrepresentations manifest in them and deconstructing gender stereotypes. This paper is an attempt to scrutinize one of these rewritings in this collection, “The Company of Wolves” from a feminist post-narratological stance, first discussing the inapplicability of classical narratological theories such as Proppian analysis of fairytales to deconstructive rewritings and then elaborating on the subversive potential of Carter’s rewriting in comparison with the original version “Little Red Cap” by the Grimm Brothers.

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Rahime ÇOKAY NEBİOĞLU

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  • EP ID EP493136
  • DOI 10.30767/diledeara.542633
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Rahime ÇOKAY NEBİOĞLU (2019). A Feminist Post-Narratological Inquiry into Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”. Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları, 19(19), 325-337. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-493136