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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a weird, weird book. I wish I'd read it as part of a class on gender, maybe alongside [b:Orlando|18839|Orlando|Virginia Woolf|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/315Frh4Em5L._SL75_.jpg|6057225] and [b:Nightwood|53101|Nightwood|Djuna Barnes|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298480120s/53101.jpg|828739] and [b:Parable of the Sower|52397|Parable of the Sower|Octavia E. Butler|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BgbGU6P%2BL._SL75_.jpg|59258], because this is packed full of symbolism. Constructs of femininity, gender, the female body, sex, myth, birth, landscape, apocalypse, etc etc etc.
Unfortunately the way this handles race is really problematic. Plus all the violence, especially the sexual violence, was really unpleasant, and the end drops off into serious surreality. I love Angela Carter, but it's not my fav of hers.
Unfortunately the way this handles race is really problematic. Plus all the violence, especially the sexual violence, was really unpleasant, and the end drops off into serious surreality. I love Angela Carter, but it's not my fav of hers.
it's been a month and a bit since i committed to reading this, but in that time i barely touched it, didn't want to disturb the already confused & confusing image that i hold of carter; although i never expected a clear & unproblematic politic from the passion of new eve, i was incredibly wary of the extent to which carter's play with gender, sex, materiality would trouble me. she treads a very thin line between what is arguably a demythologising of gender performativity, a thorough exposition of the systems by which we learn what it means to inhabit a gendered body in the world, and a strange grotesquery of transmisogyny that, even as it recursively demonstrates the inadequacy of biological essentialism, performs it.
more on this when i can come back to it.
more on this when i can come back to it.
This book is weird as fuck and tries to be feminist IMO failing as it becomes a "vengeance of women over men" kind of story. The structure is very convoluted and nothing is left quite clear. The author drops a few hints of a dystopian reality outside of the events the main character is going through that never really lead anywhere. This book had potential had it been written better.
