Carter’s Feminist Revision of Fairytale: The Narrative Strategies of “The Company of Wolves”

The paper examines how the British woman writer Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s household fairy tale—“Little Red Riding Hood” in her short story—“The Company of Wolves.” This paper attempts to analyze the two distinctive narrative strategies—re-characterization and second-person narration,...

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Published inFudan journal of the humanities and social sciences Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 53 - 67
Main Author Wu, Jie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2017
Subjects
Economics
Original Paper
Philosophy
Social Sciences
The Company of Wolves
Feminist rewriting of fairytale
Angela Carter
Narrative strategies
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ISSN1674-0750
2198-2600
DOI10.1007/s40647-016-0162-7

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Summary:The paper examines how the British woman writer Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s household fairy tale—“Little Red Riding Hood” in her short story—“The Company of Wolves.” This paper attempts to analyze the two distinctive narrative strategies—re-characterization and second-person narration, skillfully deployed by Carter in order to rewrite Perrault’s classic tale into a feminist story. In Carter’s version, Little Red Riding Hood is represented as a witty new woman who embraces her own sexuality and regards herself as a subject rather than an object. Through the transposition between reader and character, Carter’s tale produces a new subject position for readers, particularly for young female readers.
ISSN:1674-0750
2198-2600
DOI:10.1007/s40647-016-0162-7