wise children literary analysis
The Author: Angela Carter
English short story writer, novelist, journalist, dramatist and critic. Angela Carter was a notable exponent of magic realism, adding into it Gothic themes, postmodernist eclecticism, violence, and eroticism. Throughout her career, Carter utilized the language and characteristic motifs of the fantasy genre. "A good writer can make you believe time stands still," she once said. Carter completed nine novels.
Carter's novels and stories stand almost without parallel in British writing for their complex blending of parody, allegory and symbolism and their generic mixing of fantasy, romance, and science fiction underpinned by feminism and sometimes coupled with a rich humor.
Wise Children was Angela Carter’s last novel, published the year before her death from lung cancer in 1992. She created in Wise Children an effervescent family saga that manages to celebrate the lore and magic of show business while also exploring the connections between parent and child, the transitory and the immortal, authenticity and falsehood.
Feminism:
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to women, men, families, communities and societies as undesirable. Carter's novel represents a conscious and rebellious attempt to craft a personal and definitively female landscape via the techniques of magic realism. Angela Carter worked in a bar and wrote for two years, returning to Britain in 1972 with a new awareness of how gender and symbols impacted society. This led her on the road to feminism. It also influenced her later work because it was her first glimpse of a truly foreign environment. This how the novel is autobiographically related. She lives in a society
English short story writer, novelist, journalist, dramatist and critic. Angela Carter was a notable exponent of magic realism, adding into it Gothic themes, postmodernist eclecticism, violence, and eroticism. Throughout her career, Carter utilized the language and characteristic motifs of the fantasy genre. "A good writer can make you believe time stands still," she once said. Carter completed nine novels.
Carter's novels and stories stand almost without parallel in British writing for their complex blending of parody, allegory and symbolism and their generic mixing of fantasy, romance, and science fiction underpinned by feminism and sometimes coupled with a rich humor.
Wise Children was Angela Carter’s last novel, published the year before her death from lung cancer in 1992. She created in Wise Children an effervescent family saga that manages to celebrate the lore and magic of show business while also exploring the connections between parent and child, the transitory and the immortal, authenticity and falsehood.
Feminism:
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to women, men, families, communities and societies as undesirable. Carter's novel represents a conscious and rebellious attempt to craft a personal and definitively female landscape via the techniques of magic realism. Angela Carter worked in a bar and wrote for two years, returning to Britain in 1972 with a new awareness of how gender and symbols impacted society. This led her on the road to feminism. It also influenced her later work because it was her first glimpse of a truly foreign environment. This how the novel is autobiographically related. She lives in a society