Angela Carter's Futures: Representations, Adaptations and Legacies [Hardcover]

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.

Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'post-human politics', magic realism and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the 21st century.

This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.

Addressing Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as a continuing inspiration to contemporary writers, it examines her continuing relevance to the 21st century as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to be read through current critical and cultural theories

Sarah Gambleis Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University, UK.

Anna Watzis Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: In the Company of Animals,Samantha Sweeting (Independent Scholar, UK)

Introduction,Sarah Gamble(Swansea University, UK) and Anna Watz (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies
1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carter'sLoveand Ordinary Language Philosophy,Maggie Tonkin (University of Adelaide, Australia)
2.. 'Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation': Angela Carter's Posthuman Politics,Hope Jennings (Wright State University, USA)
3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter, Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay,Michelle Ryan (Universit? d'Angers, France)

Section Two: Re-Visioning
4. Visuality, Gender and Power: Exploring the Femalelóú