An Exploration Of Gender Consciousness In Angela Carter’s Novels

Angela Carter is one of the most important female writers of modern Britain.In the second half of the Twentieth century,relying on special literary talent and outstanding creative achievements,she was successful active in English literature.In fact,Carter keens on absorb the creation of the natural nutrients from the ancient folk legends.Even more,she is very good at combining the rich imagination and social reality.The diverse style from vulgar to romantic daubs a primitive vitality on her writing.Feminism is the inescapable topic of Angela Carter’s writing career.The fiction works of hers often reveal her thinking on women’s issues through the personality language and delicate design.Among Carter’s numerous fictions,rewriting the classical fairy tales are very remarkable.It overturns the stereotype of women under the patriarchal ideology.Carter consciously writes women’s bodies and desires in her fiction.In the process of the construction of gender’s female,she shows women’s struggle and beyond,difficult and sublimation through the roles.This dissertation attempts to confirm Carter’s gender writing as the research direction.On the basis of the theory of feminism,psychoanalysis,sociology,psychology and other fields unscramble Carter’s gender consciousness reflects in her novel.This dissertation committed to discuss the gender consciousness associated with 20’s era theme,the development of novel creation and Carter’s unique writing strategy,in order to dig further the thought connotation in her novels.Patriarchy has dominated the literature in the west for long time.In the twentieth century,Angela Carter who emphasized gender equity and pluralism has voiced and written about the truth about women’s inner world.Undoubtedly,Angela Carter is the most distinct and shiny stars in western literary world.