Marxist Feminism and Postmodern Elements in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Abstract

This paper endeavors to examine critically and analytically how the Marxist feminism is developed in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984), and how the postmodernistic ideas in her mind. It sheds light on the feminine themes and concerns, and in this novel Angela Carter speaks out lots of feminine matters and moves around strongly in her mind. Her lasting fascination with femininity as vision has until then been understood mainly in terms of a feminist critical project which identifies and rejects male-constructed images of women as a form of false consciousness.