BREAKING CODES OF SEXUALITY: ANGELA CARTER’S VAMPIRE WOMEN

Fernanda Sousa Carvalho

doi:10.17851/1982-0739.16.3.184-191

Authors

Fernanda Sousa Carvalho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.16.3.184-191

Keywords:

Sexuality, vampire women, abject, Angela Carter

Abstract

This essay analyzes the depiction of vampire women in Angela Carter’s “The loves of Lady Purple” and “The lady of the house of love.” Exploring the vampires’ potential of abjection, this depiction subverts patriarchal ideologies about women’s sexuality.

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Author Biography

Fernanda Sousa Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Mestre em Literaturas de Expressão Inglesa / UFMG

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