THE AMUSINGLY TERRIFYING DISRUPTIVE INGREDIENTS OF CARTER’S LIBERATING NETHER WORLD

Abstract

By working within the postmodern aesthetics, the English writer Angela Carterconcomitantly installs and undermines historical female Gothic in order to bring to the fore socialopaque mechanisms that invariably work for the detriment of the female subject. In this way, Carter’spostmodern female Gothic not only provides escape from the chains of gender, but of genre as well.

Keywords

• Postmodernism
• Gothic
• Female subject.