안젤라 카터의 도덕적 로맨스 소설 『 서커스의 밤 』 : 여성 괴물들의 몸과 사랑이야기
Angela Carter’s Moral Romance Novel Nights at the Circus: Female Monsters’ Body and Love Story
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Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus incorporates multi-disciplinary literary categories, including postmodernism, magic realism and (post)feminism. The female protagonist Sofie Fevvers, half woman and half beast, offers a plethora of both imaginative and rational views on ontological and social nature of life, embracing fantasy/realism and fiction/fact. However, Nights at the Circus may simply be a “romance novel,” of which the main theme lies in a heterosexual love story and the forthcoming marriage as a matter of course. At the end of the novel, the conjoined couple does not surprise the readers in spite of their differences in physicality, for the happy ending is easily predicted from the beginning as other traditional romance novels are. Nevertheless, it is far from a simple task to visualize such a drastic romantic union between a monstrous female beast and a man, unless the hybridity of her grotesque body is successfully provoked and imagined. That is, to understand Nights at the Circus as a romance novel is to deconstruct and reinvent the romance genre by liberating layers of historical and political demarcation engraved in the body of female; furthermore it is to set the possibility for women, in Carter’s words, to “fuck in the active sense,” so that “be able to fuck their way into history and, in doing so, change it.” It is the very “moral” aspect of this romance novel that demystifies the conventional archetypes of both women and love, and opens up the new narratives of love, namely “herstorical” novel.
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Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus incorporates multi-disciplinary literary categories, including postmodernism, magic realism and (post)feminism. The female protagonist Sofie Fevvers, half woman and half beast, offers a plethora of both imaginative and rational views on ontological and social nature of life, embracing fantasy/realism and fiction/fact. However, Nights at the Circus may simply be a “romance novel,” of which the main theme lies in a heterosexual love story and the forthcoming marriage as a matter of course. At the end of the novel, the conjoined couple does not surprise the readers in spite of their differences in physicality, for the happy ending is easily predicted from the beginning as other traditional romance novels are. Nevertheless, it is far from a simple task to visualize such a drastic romantic union between a monstrous female beast and a man, unless the hybridity of her grotesque body is successfully provoked and imagined. That is, to understand Nights at the Circus as a romance novel is to deconstruct and reinvent the romance genre by liberating layers of historical and political demarcation engraved in the body of female; furthermore it is to set the possibility for women, in Carter’s words, to “fuck in the active sense,” so that “be able to fuck their way into history and, in doing so, change it.” It is the very “moral” aspect of this romance novel that demystifies the conventional archetypes of both women and love, and opens up the new narratives of love, namely “herstorical” novel.
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