Recommendations from our site
“The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is a book that I think everybody should read. It’s essentially a series of feminist retellings of fairy tales. Angela Carter takes the safety of the fairy tale, and she flips it – so in The Company of Wolves, for example, she plays a lot with the Little Red Riding Hood trope (for want of a better word). It’s fun to see what the meaning of fairy tales is, what the use of them is; and we could argue that the Little Red Riding Hood story is a warning for girls who are coming into puberty of the dangers inherent in men, and in not listening to your matriarchs telling you how to avoid those dangers.” Read more...
Alex Pheby, Novelist
“I did not know her writing until I came across The Bloody Chamber, and it struck me as particularly relevant to the ongoing gender struggles. She had a position and perspective on gender and feminism that I thought was much more sophisticated and nuanced than a lot of the other feminist writers of the time.” Read more...
Jack Zipes, Literary Scholar
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