![]() ![]() For Duncker, the very fact that these ‘celebrations of erotic desire’ are written within the ‘straight-jacket’ of the fairy tale form means that the messages they deliver are inherently patriarchal. ![]() ![]() Although Carter’s stories overtly depict female sexuality and pleasure, Duncker disputes that this alone does not justify feminist interpretations of Carter’s fiction. Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (See note 1) has long been subject to criticism from writers such as Patricia Duncker for the ways in which its short stories, which are ‘often described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist’, (See note 2) present male and female heterosexual dynamics. ![]()
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