Femina lupa feminae: "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter
' "I do think, myself," I added, "that a girl should shoot her own rapists." '
In "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter
Then I thought about it from a different angle. This is a novel written by someone who very strongly holds political and social views, for sure, and a novel which reflects those views in its themes and story, but is it really a Political Novel in the didactic/polemic/instructional sense?
I believe a lot of Carter's writing draws on fantasy and horror traditions; I first encountered her writing via a collection of fairy-tales and folklore and coming in that way to her own fiction meant I was completely fine with abusive puppeteers, winged women and panopticons in the tundra.
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
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