Violent Spaces, Violated Bodies: The Representations of Violence in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve
Abstrakt
Published in 1977, The Passion of
New Eve depicts a dystopian America where
violence has become the norm. From rape
to murder, from re-creation to violation, the
text provides a variety of contexts in which
violence operates. Regardless of one’s gender
and sometimes because of that, everyone can
become the victim or the perpetrator. Moreover,
the spaces occupied by the characters
contribute to the novel’s handling of violence.
This paper argues that Angela Carter’s The
Passion of New Eve is a text in which space,
self, gender, and body are the sites where violence
is presented and re-presented, inflicted
and experienced, and it contends that violence serves as a means to problematize conventional ways of perceiving and making sense of gender and space.
Keywords: Angela Carter, The Passion
of New Eve, violence, self, body, space.
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