We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The End of Cages: Deconstruction of Marginal Institutions in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.
- Authors
Niazi, Nozar; Saedi, Sabrie
- Abstract
In the long-lasting history of patriarchy, women, as feminists remind us, have been "the other" of the society, who are encaged in several established institutions in order to be monitored by the dominant discourse. In Nights at the Circus, Carter goes to these institutions and their oppressed inhabitants in order to shed light on these previously neglected territories. Her goal is to depict the long-age history of women's objectification and to deconstruct the dominant discourse by the symbolic destruction of these marginal institutions. By analyzing two of these marginal institutions, the brothel and the freak show, the present paper wishes to demonstrate how Carter accomplishes her feminist mission. The whores, likewise, are portrayed as potential revolutionary elements who, finally, stand up to patriarchy and its domineering norms.
- Subjects
PATRIARCHY; FEMINISM; NIGHTS at the Circus (Book); CARTER, Angela, 1940-1992; FREAK shows
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 3, p30
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article